[Elecraft] XG-3 - why RS-232

[Wayne Burdick]

The RS232 circuitry we use on the KX3, XG3, K144XV, W1, and W2 has  
three main benefits:  (1) Current drain is near zero. (2) There's  
absolutely no RFI. And (3) you can use any of these devices with  
either a USB or RS232 port at the computer end by ordering the  
associated Elecraft adapter.

73,
Wayne
N6KR


> Not exactly comparable to the XG-3, perhaps.  I would have thought  
> that
> a USB port would have advantages so far as space and weight, maybe  
> even
> power consumption, in a battery powered miniature device.  For those
> using old computers, USB port cards for the PCI bus are absolutely  
> dirt
> cheap.