[Elecraft] RS232 interface

[G4GNX]

That might work for me in conjunction with real RS232 ports. Then I could 
perhaps control from my Nexus tablet and Android phone.

I guess there's always the Pigknob stuff, but the hardware does seem rather 
expensive.

FWIW I'm about to dump the Prolific (maybe counterfeit) hardware altogether 
except for the Baofeng cable which works fine with my laptop.
The reason being that whilst I was experimenting yesterday, installing one 
of the Prolific drivers crashed the PC into a BSOD and even though I was 
using a different piece of hardware to attempt to control my UPS, it still 
crashed u7nexpectedly when I was using it for something unrelated.
I've now uninstalled the Prolific driver completely and I'm performing a 
ReImage repair to ensure stability. The PC has been stable for two years 
since I built it, so I take drastic action when something like this happens. 
:-)

I also discovered that when I was attempting to get the device to talk to 
the K3, although I was getting conflicting reports, some communication must 
have taken place because when I switched the K3 on today, I saw two error 
messages which were caused by c0onfig changes that I did not make (2 modules 
classed as installed but not actually present) and the K3 now has my 
callsign on the startup message. The ONLY way that could have got there is 
via the RS232 port.

I just have to be patient and wait for the FTDI cable to arrive, which I can 
use on at least a temporary basis to ensure that the config is 100% and save 
it as a file.

73,

Alan. G4GNX

-----Original Message----- 
From: Michael Walker
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2014 4:48 PM
To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] RS232 interface

I've changed all my devices to Moxa's or Lantronix devices, that way I
don't have to worry about not having the ports installed on my desktop or
laptop.

These are RS232 over IP devices.

Mike va3mw