[South Florida DX Association] COM ports implemented via USB

[Tom - KE1JF]

To avoid the USB Com Port problems ( my Dell only has USB Ports )  I bought 
a PCI card giving me 2 serial ports for $13.99.  Not a single problem, one 
to my TS-2000 & one to my RTTY Interface.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124017

73,
Tom, KE1JF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Phegley" <bphegley at bellsouth.net>
To: "Bill Marx" <bmarx at bellsouth.net>
Cc: "aSFDXA" <SFDXA at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: [South Florida DX Association] COM ports implemented via USB


> Mine works just fine with the USB/COM port adapter from BuxCom, 
> http://www.buxcomm.com/
> 1/2 the price of the Belkin
> Bruce w4ov
>
> Bill Marx wrote:
>> The last few items came from the ARRL Contest Sheet...
>> -Bill W2CQ
>>
>> Mario S56A notes that COM ports implemented via USB generally don't
>> support the RTTY Baudot standard. As it turns out, there is at least
>> one known USB adapter that does. Mike NF4L replied that AA5AU's
>> authoritative RTTY Web site
>> <http://www.aa5au.com/gettingstarted/rtty_start8.htm> lists the
>> Belkin F5U103 as being an adapter that will run 5-bit Baudot code. Little 
>> things like this can derail big efforts!
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