Joe -
All else being equal, and I am sure that is not true <grin>, the main thing to remember is to be sure and NOT use a standard serial cable with the K2. The K2's serial adapter does NOT use standard wiring! You will need to build up a cable that is wired for the task. The instructions for the KIO2 interface board explain this is great detail. You can probably use an off-the-shelf USB to serial converter to handle the data stream going each way, but you will still need to make a special cable to interconnect the converter and the K2. DO NOT plug the USB to Serial adapter into the K2's I/O port directly! - Jim, KL7CC K2 - 3995 Joe Vrabel wrote: > Hello: > > I've done some research on this reflector but I'm still a bit confused. I'm > planning on purchasing a Laptop and I'm a bit concerned about being able to > interface the computer with no serial port with my K2. I am presently > running HRD which works well with my shack computer with a serial port. Are > there any plug and play adapters for this which are safe?? I do not want to > fry anything in a perfectly working K2. Thanks to all for any help. 73 Joe > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
