Gary A. Hinton wrote: > Hello Tony, > > Your not going to find one of those type of boxes. They just don't > exist. > You can build one easily. Go to your local thrift shop and pick up a > RS232 > switch box use for switching printers used in the past. It contains > the switch > that you need and the box.also. Buy a pair of 13 pin Din receptacles, > plug, > wire and some solder. Can't be much easier than that. > > 73 Gary WB6BNE
A viable approach, however, I have decided for my station to make everything controllable from the computer. So instead of mechanical switches, I always use relays. I also convert all connectors to D-subminiature or 3 conductor 3.5 mm stereo jacks. So what I would do is buy a cable with a 13 pin DIN plug on it and wire a DB-25 to the other end. The box would have a DB-25 and two DE-9's. The DE-9's would connect to the ancillary equipment (assuming that no individual piece of equipment needs more than 9 of the 13 pins). The control for the relay bank would be via a 3 conductor 3.5 mm jack. I can get cheap 3.5 mm patch cables and D-sub cables at the swap meet. Rick N6RK
