On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:09:43 -0700, Garry Shapiro wrote: >Tom, NW6P has a new K3 and a "modern" laptop with no serial port,
About seven years ago, I bought a Quatech DSP-100 PC-card for my IBM T41 Thinkpad that came without a serial port. It provides two real hardware serial ports from 16750 UARTS. It's been through a lot of Field Days and lots of operation at home. Not cheap, but works great, no RFI issues. No issues with any software. Lowest cost place to buy it is B&B Electronics, which is in a small town about 100 miles WSW of Chicago. There used to be a great hamfest there. B&B is a great vendor of computer interface products for professional users. http://www.bb-elec.com/product_family.asp?FamilyId=23&Trail=2&TrailType=Top http://www.bb-elec.com/bb-elec/literature/quatech_pcmcia.pdf I just bought another one, AND one of the quad port interfaces so I can play with SO2R dual RTTY decoding. BTW -- another way to get a real hardware serial port is with a port replicator or docking station. These can often be found for cheap from various sources. I have a couple of port replicators for my Thinkpads. They also provide additional audio I/O. 73, Jim K9YC ______________________________________________________________ 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
