[Elecraft] Prolific drivers and Mac OS

[lstavenhagen]

Well, for what it's worth, I'm still trying to get over my prejudice that
computers and HF rigs don't mix but that's going with extreme difficulty
recently hi hi. I've been experimenting with grounding schemes, chokes and
so on with exasperating results with my macs and the K3. At this point,
totally ironically, the only thing useful involving a wire between the
computer and the rig has been my USB->RS-232 adapter to run the K3 utility.
Everything else involves too much RFI to be able to use the rig/computer for
any intended purpose and the cables always seem to hop back out of the rig
and back into the storage boxes.
Maybe a Faraday cage around the computer would be the next thing to try.
Moving to a location where I can put up a real antenna a long ways from the
rig would probably help too, but that's impractical right now hi hi.

So I've about thrown in the towel on this (again) hi hi and am about to
surrender and just go back to computerless HF ops. The K3's built-in
PSK/RTTY decoder/encoder works surprisingly well now that I'm learning how
to use it and I need to practice my CW sending anyway.

As for the prolific drivers on MacOS X, the 32 bit releases work great with
no problems using my Bill-n-Ted's Excellent adapter from BestBuy. I havn't
worked on the apparent problem with the recent 64 bit version, tho, because
the 32 versions already work fine. And the error messages I get when trying
to load it suggest it's a perms thing and not a problem with the driver
itself.

PS, I did try this with the non-commercial version of MacLoggerDX and
everything I tried out with it also worked perfectly with no problems. I
just couldn't hear any signals because of the noise hi hi.

73,
LS
W5QD
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