At 01:57 AM 5/30/2008, you wrote: >A while back we were tossing out a couple of External SCSI drives at >work. I snatched them up and they've been sitting on the shelf. As I >near the completion of my RXTX 6.2 I'm thinking one of these would be >a nice home for the radio. Make a face plate for the front with >switches and run the coax out the back. Mount the board where the >drive used to be. I'd use the power supply in the hard drive >enclosure for the 12v. Might have to toss a resistor across the 5V to >get the switching supply to have a load I'm not sure. Can anyone think >of why this would not be a good set up? > > Hank AB2XG
I am in the process of doing the same thing with a serial port A/B switchbox. The only rub is that it's generally recommended not to connect the antenna common, power supply ground and sound card common together, to avoid a ground loop. If you're not using connectors on the back panel of the box you should be fine, but I've decided to use a sheet of plastic replacing the back panel, so that I can just mount connectors to it. 73, Pete
