The only con, really, is being tied to an RF-hash producing, frantic, freezing, crashing computer if you want to operate your radio. I'm a SW developer and I have to fight those things all day, every day so that's the indelible image in my mind when trying to mix my Mac with Ham Radio - so I tend to try to avoid having to use a computer for my radio ops if I can help it. Just give me a Vibroplex and a notebook&pen and I'm happy.
Otherwise, there are no negatives to using the USB support over the RS232 that I can see. I believe both Windows and MacOS already have driver support for the internals inside the K3S, so the basics like using the K3 utility and using its audio devices within applications with sound support is pretty much plug-and-play. I believe the K3 utility worked out-of-the-box on my Mac with my K3S when I checked it over a few weeks ago. 73, LS W5QD -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3s-using-RS232-v-USB-tp7614868p7614871.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]
