[Elecraft] serial to USB

[Bill K9YEQ]

I refined the search and found the items you are referring to.  Thanks a
ton!

73,
Bill
K9YEQ


-----Original Message-----
From: Ron W3ZV [mailto:w3zv at verizon.net] 
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 5:00 PM
To: Bill K9YEQ
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] serial to USB

I paid $35 on eBay. 4 port. It worked fine. Keep looking.

Ron W3ZV

On Feb 11, 2012, at 5:43 PM, Bill K9YEQ wrote:

> 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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