[Elecraft] RS232 interface

[Jim Brown]

On 10/25/2014 11:32 PM, Gary Gregory wrote:
> Good grief......
>
> No opions allowed unless cleared by a superior i guess.
>
> Oh well, like i dsid....what would i know?

Hi Gary,

You're allowed to have an opinion, but so are the rest of us. I agree 
with Joe -- vendors who steal designs ought to be condemned. Behringer 
established a reputation for doing that a decade or so ago, and the pro 
audio community condemned them (as did at least one court). Those who 
buy cheap stuff from unknown vendors should not be surprised when it 
turns out to be stolen or junk. Elecraft sells USB to serial interface 
cables of known good quality. The real stuff usually does cost more than 
junk.

I serve on an international Standards Committee (the Audio Engineering 
Society) with representatives of several very good manufacturers who 
have told me of their problems with counterfeits, and most of it is 
junk. For example, connectors that don't mate because their dimensions 
are wrong, and mics that look like the real thing but don't sound like 
the real thing.

73, Jim K9YC