Hi, Hmm, can you get your money back for that laptop? Seems to me that your RS232 port is next to useless. Even if you could find a mating connector, unbolted DB9's fall out very easily. RS232-less computers is something we have had to live with for a long, long time. It is really not hard to find an FTDI based converter. Avoid the cheap knock-offs, buy locally and return it if it doesn't work.
AB2TC - Knut Raymond METZGER wrote > Hi everybody, > > Reading the Reflector convinced me that a RS232 connection is better than > a > USB connection between the K3 and the computer. > > I recently changed my laptop and succeeded in finding a laptop with a > RS232 > com port (HP ProBook 650 G1). > The problem I'm now facing is that normal DB9 female connectors cannot be > reliably inserted in the male DB9 connector of the laptop due to the > physical characteristics of the male DB9 connector : there are no nuts on > the laptop to attach the connector and the height of normal DB9 female > connectors is too big. I looked at many supplier web pages but didn't > find > a thinner DB9 connector without bolts. > > Has anybody made the same experience and resolved the problem ? > > Thank you > De Ray, F4FNT > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to > [email protected] -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/DB9-connectors-tp7605311p7605313.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
