[Elecraft] OT Sound Card and USB to Serial Port Hub

[Phil Kane]

On 4/5/2010 10:43 AM, Matt Palmer wrote:

> If you need more slots then build a real computer. Shouldn't be
> too hard to get a case and a motherboard that will support
> whatever processor and ram you have, with more pci/pciE slots to
> make the upgrade cheaply.

  My observation is that the motherboards for desktop/tower
  computers are having less and less slots as time goes by.  My
  main mail/messaging/internet computer has 5 slots, all filled
  (three dual-port-RS-232 cards, dual-head video card, one spare
  that was used for USB port expansion).  Most of those which I
  have seen now are three-slot boards.  The RS-232 ports run two
  TNCs and three software-defined non-ham monitor receivers.

  I run my Ham Stuff (tm) from a HP laptop with USB hubs and
  USB-to-multi-RS232 adapters.  Runs the K2, the RigBlaster Plus
  interface and USB iMic sound card plus three TNCs.

  Works just fine.

--  73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
    Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402