Don, Which brand are you using? I am looking for a four port.
73, Bill K9YEQ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Don Wilhelm Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 4:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] serial to USB All, I feel I should add to the discussion the fact that these consumer quality USB to Serial adapters typically do not like to work at lower baud rates - the K2 uses 4800 baud. So an adapter that works at the K3 rate of 19.2k may have trouble when attempting to drive a K2. The commercial quality USB to Serial converters (note that they are called converters instead of adapters) may not suffer from the same problems, my Edgeport/4 converter works well with the K2 even with the high polling rates of Ham Radio Deluxe. Of course these commercial quality converters are more expensive than the $10 to $40 consumer quality adapters. 73, Don W3FPR On 2/11/2012 4:14 PM, Bob Cunnings wrote: >> what IS the difference between FTDI and Prolific. > They are two different manufacturers of USB to Serial hardware ICs (chips). > > http://www.ftdichip.com/ > > http://www.prolific.com.tw/eng/company.asp > > Besides the hardware, each manufacturer supplies royalty free software > (device drivers) as part of the solution for PC operating systems such > as Mac, Windows and Linux. > > At work I have long used FTDI chips in products we design. A > customized version of the signed driver package supplied by FTDI for > 32 and 64 bit Windows is incorporated into our own software > distribution. Prolific is generally ok but lately they have been > warning about counterfeit parts and USB to Serial Cables: > > http://www.prolific.com.tw/eng/downloads.asp?id=31 > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
