[Elecraft] serial to USB

[Bill K9YEQ]

Don, 

Thanks!  I found a digi on Amazon for $ 216.  There was a reconditioned unit
by Saitek, but I believe that is Chinese and I am no so certain it isn't a
knock off.  I will check out eBay.

73,
Bill
K9YEQ


-----Original Message-----
From: Don Wilhelm [mailto:don at w3fpr.com] 
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 4:41 PM
To: Bill K9YEQ
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] serial to USB

Bill,

I bought mine some time ago (when they were cheap) on Ebay - I have the
Edgeport/4 (4 port) by Inside Out - that company was sold to Digi
International, and the Digi drivers work with the Edgeport - see if you can
find one being sold on Ebay for a decent price.  The drivers for the /2, /4,
/8 and /16 are the same.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 2/11/2012 5:34 PM, Bill K9YEQ wrote:
> Don,
>
> Which brand are you using?  I am looking for a four port.
>
> 73,
> Bill
> K9YEQ
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Don Wilhelm
> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 4:08 PM
> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] serial to USB
>
> All,
>
> I feel I should add to the discussion the fact that these consumer quality
> USB to Serial adapters typically do not like to work at lower baud rates -
> the K2 uses 4800 baud.  So an adapter that works at the K3 rate of 19.2k
may
> have trouble when attempting to drive a K2.
>
> The commercial quality USB to Serial converters (note that they are called
> converters instead of adapters) may not suffer from the same problems, my
> Edgeport/4 converter works well with the K2 even with the high polling
rates
> of Ham Radio Deluxe.  Of course these commercial quality converters are
more
> expensive than the $10 to $40 consumer quality adapters.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
> On 2/11/2012 4:14 PM, Bob Cunnings wrote:
>>> what IS the difference between FTDI and Prolific.
>> They are two different manufacturers of USB to Serial hardware ICs
> (chips).
>> http://www.ftdichip.com/
>>
>> http://www.prolific.com.tw/eng/company.asp
>>
>> Besides the hardware, each manufacturer supplies royalty free software
>> (device drivers) as part of the solution for PC operating systems such
>> as Mac, Windows and Linux.
>>
>> At work I have long used FTDI chips in products we design. A
>> customized version of the signed driver package supplied by FTDI for
>> 32 and 64 bit Windows is incorporated into our own software
>> distribution. Prolific is generally ok but lately they have been
>> warning about counterfeit parts and USB to Serial Cables:
>>
>> http://www.prolific.com.tw/eng/downloads.asp?id=31
>>
>>
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