I am using the ByteRunner http://www.byterunner.com PCI internal cards. With the 2 serial ports on the mainboard and 8 more from one PCI-400HS-9 and one PCI-410HSP-9 I have 10 serial ports. I have tested all of them with DXBase2003 beta and they all work for radio control, rotor control and tnc connection for packet. The PCI-410HSP-9 provides a parallel ports as well, thus my system has 2 parallel ports. I have tested the parallel ports with a laser printer, they work, but I do not use the parallel ports at all. If I had it to do over again I would buy a single 8 port com card from Byterunner since I do not need an extra parallel port. I do CW generation using the W5XD multifunction keyer http://www.writelog.com/ordering.htm which connects via a serial port and works well. I have found that you cannot rely upon the PC to do CW generation..to do so results in very choppy, inaccurately timed CW. The W5XD does the generating externally and is excellent (but expensive!).
While this does not address your USB question, it seems to me that the goal is to have reliable com ports and many of them and what I have done is a solution which works. Ron N5IN ----- Original Message ----- From: "k7hph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 11:07 AM Subject: [DXBase] Fw: Extra Serial Ports > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "k7hph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 11:09 PM > Subject: Extra Serial Ports > > > > Hello: > > > > Does anyone on the reflector have any experience with USB to Serial Port > > Multiport converters? I need more Serial Ports on my P4. It would be nice > if > > they would readily talk to DXBase 2002/2003. > > > > Thanks, Mark > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >
