[Elecraft] USB to serial angst

[WILLIS COOKE]

The need to avoid the Prolific chip set may be fleeting and the problem may even be sorted out by now.  The Prolific adapter worked just fine unless you were trying to use one of the loggers compiled in Visual Basic for Rig Control.  I have seen some reports that a new Prolific driver released in December has solved the problem.
 Willis 'Cookie' Cooke 
K5EWJ 




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From: Brett Howard <brett at livecomputers.com>
To: Lew Phelps K6LMP <k6lmp at me.com>
Cc: Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sat, March 13, 2010 3:42:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] USB to serial angst

Actually its exactly that simple...

I'm not sure that people would consider that an improvement as the only
thing it does is move the USB to RS232 adapter into the radio rather
than an external adapter but I think if everyone was using FTDI adapters
there would be a lot fewer complaints about the adapters.

~Brett

On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 11:26 -0800, Lew Phelps K6LMP wrote:
> 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 THe serial port  with its RS-232 interface is obsolete.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 the 70's if not earlier and was superseded  by USB.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
> > 
> > VA7DZ
> > 
> > S/N 3640
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