[Elecraft] [K3] Built in USB interface for K3

[Brendan Minish]

On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 07:43 -0700, Phil Hystad wrote:
> With the exception of ham radio, I seriously doubt that I could find and buy
> a device that needs RS232.  I understand that there might be a device that
> supports RS232 for some old equipment needs.  Or, even devices, as the
> cited example that for some reason continues to use RS232.

Cisco, 3Com and Juniper Routers and switches still all use an RS232
based console port and very handy it is at times too. 
It's used as the NMEA bus for pretty much all marine electronics where
here the big advantage is that you can easily have multiple devices
listening to GPS data on the same common bus 
In the ham shack the same trick is used to control steppir antennas,
drive band controllers etc 

I have yet to meet an X86 based server that does not have at least one
on board RS232 port and you can buy USB to rs232 converters for a couple
of Euro on Ebay 

RS-232 is still be best choice for low speed serial communications for
many applications 

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73
Brendan EI6IZ