[GreenKeys] USB to RS-232

[tony.podrasky]

GM OMs;

Hi Ron; I know this isn't the answer you're looking for but
like me, it might be a work-around.

Instead of fighting the problem, you can go on eBay and buy a
used laptop with a native RS-232 port FOR CHEAP!

I have 6 HP 4150 laptops that are dedicated to specific
applications - and some of them are pretty silly: one just
runs a nice digital clock. Two are in the shack, one as a log
book, one as my RTTY interface. One shows the phases of the moon
and where the sun is over the earth, and best-of-all, one gleans
my incoming e-mails and announces the subject in Morse Code - so
when I'm near it I can tell what my new e-mail is about. I had 4
others but they've died over the years, so I cannibalized them
for spare parts.

I paid anywhere from $15.oo to $35.oo for each one - and they've
been running non-stop for 10 years!

They don't need to be state-of-the-art when it comes to what I use
them for - and all the old software runs just fine on them.

UE,
K2EAA - TONY
NNNN
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On 06/05/2017 06:58 AM, Ron Boltz wrote:
> I use HAL DSRTTY-Win on two laptops that have RS-232 ports.  DSRTTY
> requires a com port, not USB.  I also use these laptops to program my
> two Yaesu radios that require an RS-232 port.  The radios are current
> equipment so not old.  Has anyone has success with the USB to RS-232
> adaptors/modules/software that are available?  All the new laptops do
> not have a RS-232 port and I soon need a new one.  I have heard that
> most of these adaptors do not work as some of the protocols required are
> not supported.
>
> Ron Boltz
>
> K3TZJ

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