[Elecraft] USB to serial angst

[Lew Phelps K6LMP]

Folks, I asked Elecraft about this before I bought my rig in January; they said it's "on the list" but not as easy to do as one might think.  I figured they could just drop an FTDI chipset into the rig in place of the RS232 jack, but it seems that it's not all that simple.

Patience is a virtue.

Lew K6LMP


On Mar 13, 2010, at 11:08 AM, eric manning wrote:

> All in favour of a USB port on the K3?
> 
> Then we could forget about un-necessary, expensive , flaky  and 
> crash-prone USB to serial adapters.
> THe serial port  with its RS-232 interface is obsolete. It dates back to 
> the 70's if not earlier and was superseded  by USB.
> 
> eric
> 
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