[Ham-Mac] Re USB Interfaces for Ham Radio

[John E Bastin, K8AJS]

At 23:23 +0100 02/04/2002, Jerko Golubovic wrote:
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>Are you using Win98+USB of VPC (with Win driver) or CommToolbox driver
>(on MAC side) and VPCs 16550USART emulation?

At 15:03 -0800 02/04/2002, John T. Barr wrote:
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>Yep, this is what I have..I never loaded a Win driver,
>I assume VPC finds the mac driver and assigns it to
>the Keyspan adapter....John

At 16:45 +0100 02/05/2002, Jerko Golubovic wrote:
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>You may end-up in handshake problems with certain programs that way. Try
>using Windows driver and see how it will work.

When I was setting up my PowerBook to use the Keyspan PDA adapter with VPC for radio control with a Windows logging program, I talked to Keyspan Tech Support and they told me to NOT install the Windows drivers but use the Mac drivers for the adapter and just tell Windows that it was a COMM port.

I've been using it this way and it works like a charm. The Windows logging program thinks it's controlling the radio through a serial port at COMM 1 and the DB-9 connector on the PDA does just fine as a PC serial port connector...:-)

It's not the same application, I know, but perhaps this information will be helpful.

73,

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