[Elecraft] USB to serial angst

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

> All one needs is a TI PCM2902 and a FTDI USB to RS232 chip 
> and a little support analogy bits and poof you can have all 
> that.

Plus a USB hub ... it's not as easy as one would imagine and 
would add significantly (> $250 given normal parts to retail 
ratios) to the cost of the transceiver. 

73, 

   ... Joe, W4TV 
 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Brett Howard
> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 4:41 PM
> To: Joe Planisky
> Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net; eric manning
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] USB to serial angst
> 
> 
> All one needs is a TI PCM2902 and a FTDI USB to RS232 chip 
> and a little support analogy bits and poof you can have all 
> that.  Heck I'd even bet it could be put onto a board small 
> enough you could fit it inside your K3 and you'd also have 
> full support for all of the OSes you wish!
> 
> ~Brett
> 
> On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 11:39 -0800, Joe Planisky wrote:
> > Great idea as long as Elecraft provide and maintain drivers 
> that work
> > with
> > 
> > Win2K
> > WinXP,
> > Vista/32 bit
> > Vista/64 bit
> > Win7/32 bit
> > Win7/64 bit
> > Mac OS X 10.5 PPC,
> > Mac OS X 10.5 Intel,
> > Mac OS X 10.6,
> > and the various versions of Linux (32 and 64 bit).
> > 
> > I'm all for it.
> > 
> > 73
> > --
> > Joe KB8AP
> > 
> > On Mar 13, 2010, at 11:08 AM, eric manning wrote:
> > 
> > > All in favour of a USB port on the K3?
> > >
> > > ...
> > > eric
> > >
> > > VA7DZ
> > 
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