[Elecraft] USB to serial angst

[Julian, G4ILO]

N3PSJ-2 wrote:
> 
> A good ethernet interface which communicates without using any rs-232
> serial
> bus protocall internal would be best.
> 
> Until the software vendors get their software upgraded you could use one
> of
> the free programs that create a virtual serial port and forward the
> commands
> to an IP address.  I suspect the software vendors would be very quick to
> make the change to connect directly via IP since it is essentially doing
> the
> same communications on a the ethernet interface.
> 

I haven't tried these free programs but I would not be surprised to find
compatibility issues arise with some programs just as they do using the
virtual serial port software (a different type of emulation) or indeed USB
adapters. Also we are not talking about software vendors but amateur written
software some of whose developers may no longer be updating their programs.
Some keen contesters even use software that runs under DOS. Such
considerations mean that decisions which might make sense if we were talking
about mass market consumer hardware may not be appropriate in a ham radio
context.

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