[Ham-Mac] Keyspan adapters

[Chris Smolinski]

>I have not been able to locate a local source for Keyspan brand 
>USB-serial adapters and have successfully used 2 Dynex brand 
>adapters  on my Powerbook to interface via a Rigblaster Plus to my 
>Elecraft K2.  
>One adapter is used to the Rigblaster, the other from the Powerbook 
>to the Elecraft KIO2 port.  It all seems fine, so I am wondering if 
>I am missing something by not having the Keyspan adapters.
>
>Any advice happily accepted.
>

My own experience has been that adapters using the FTDI chipset work 
the best on the Mac, with Keyspan perhaps coming in second place. 
Keyspan used the be the best years ago, but I've had reports of 
issues with kernel panics, especially sleep related.

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Chris Smolinski
Black Cat Systems
http://www.blackcatsystems.com