IMHO, I would suggest an it with 8gb of ram so your suggested system is quite adequate. Pretty well all systems come with 8gb or more these days and if you want to use a software Panadapter you will have better performance in the long run with more memory.As to the serial ports being real or not....I have about 14 serial ports on my system. I have an edgeport usb converter that has 8 rs232 connections. It generally considered that this is one of the better setups.However, I have never had ANY issues with USB to serial adapters on my systems. I have had issues with the edge port when I had rf in the shack. It would effectively lock up and only a power cycle of the computer would fix it. It is a driver issue, blue screen...IMHO, and I have quite a bit of experience with serial ports, USB to serial adapters are fine. Just get some decent quality ones, based on the ftdi chip set.73 Tom
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.-------- Original message --------From: Don Wilhelm <w3...@embarqmail.com> Date: 2016-01-05 2:55 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Jerry <je...@molaver.org>, Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] suggested PC??? Jerry, Put some real RS-232 serial ports in it. USB is fine for some things, but there are times you want a serial port and USB to serial adapters can sometimes be finicky. I would limit the memory to 4 GB if it were mine, and yes, I have a tower computer that I have dedicated to the hamshack. 73, Don W3FPR On 1/5/2016 12:53 PM, Jerry wrote: > Now that I have had my k3s on the air for a couple of months I'm ready to > interface it to a computer. I am planning on a dedicated PC just for use in > the shack. My only uses (that I can think of now) are logging and control of > the k3s, perhaps remotely at some point. > > > It seems to me an I7 processor of any speed would be adequate with a 500gb > SSD and wifi capability to my LAN (I guess I could hard wire this). What else > do I need in the box in the way of interconnectivity? Any need for a large > amount of memory (>8gb)? > > > Any suggestions would be appreciated > > > Jerry, k1tgx > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to w3...@embarqmail.com > ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to tom...@videotron.ca ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
