On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > > As everyone knows, some USB to serial adapter is OK, but others are very poor. My suggestion is try to buy a PCMCIA to RS232 card, it is much better than a USB to serial. By the way there a tranditional RS232 on your thinkpad main board, but you need several wires ... 73 de ba4rf/David ______________________________________________________________ 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
