I am working on the BESCOTP award--the Bought Every Single Cable On The Planet award...
The DB-9 serial port on the back of the K-3 here has a special cable running to the Steppir antenna controller. Now I need to access the same port from the computer for another application, mainly my contest logger/keying. I have a Micro Keyer and my old cable for it was for a Icom Pro II. I have to buy a new one for the K-3, but it is $85 ! I'd go ahead and do it, but I'm not sure how to hook all this up! So, how are you contesters out there doing that? Is there a Y cable made for DB-9? If so, wouldn't that pin out be different than the one for the SteppIR and cause problems? A secondary problem is that the computer only has USB ports, no serial port. It's an IBM Thinkpad. I believe it has 4 USB 2.0 ports available. Any info would help! Thanks, Paul WY7I ______________________________________________________________ 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
