[South Florida DX Association] COM ports implemented via USB

[Bruce Phegley]

Excellent idea and item for desktop, but if you are using a laptop or 
notebook, different story.

Tom - KE1JF wrote:
> 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
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>
>> 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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