[Elecraft] USB to serial angst

[Ken Nicely]

There are several free software applications that emulate an rs-232 port and
send the rs-232 commands to a configured ethernet IP address and port.
They  work very similar to LP Bridge, but they allow you to forward the
communication to the ethernet port.  Once the software is installed it
creates a virtual serial port and you just point your control software to
the virtual port.  The software then send the commands from the virtual port
to the ethernet ip address and port.

Just add the ethernet to the rig.  No adapter required.  Just another layer
of software.....until the control software developers implement ethernet.

As a software developer, I can tell you that it is quite simple to add
ethernet support to the control software.  There is a chicken or egg issue
here.  The software developers are not going to add ethernet until the
hardware designers add it.  Why would they, if nobody can use it.

Ken  KE3C