[Elecraft] K3 USB request

[Bill Frantz]

And here I thought that these programs were used by some hams 
with a USB <--> RS232 converter. :-)

I really don't see any problem for a USB interface designer 
including a hub on the radio side of the USB interface and a USB 
<--> RS232 chip on one port of the hub. Other ports of the hub 
would provide other USB interfaces which would appear separately 
on the computer. One could be a sound card interface, one a 
headphone interface etc. We still don't have USB in full 
generality to the radio, but we could have a useful number of 
devices for ham radio with one wire to the computer.

Fred, K6DGW: I hear you comments about calling it "wireless".

Cheers - Bill, AE6JV (only 201 unread Elecraft list emails)

On 11/10/12 at 1:31 AM, ftownsend at sbcglobal.net (Fred Townsend) wrote:

>MORE IMPORTANTLY, if you replace RS232 with either an interface or USB, you
>break the code of every ham radio program out there that uses an RS232
>interface. That is not a trivial matter. It's still a shovel with a rope
>handle.

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