If you notice, the USB port is fixed there. The whole communications
interface area of the K3 can be update, modified, and changed as the
rig and firmware grows. Elecraft chose the RS232, as a port that so
many folks have used in the past.
If you listen to hams (like on this list) think about how many are
resistant to change. If they had come out with USB and no serial
there would have been a cry from the masses of
DOS/Win95/OS2/WinME/Win98 users that they could not use their serial
ports.
Don't get me wrong, I find USB/Serial adapters annoying, but mine has
worked great. I get the Belkin ones that Staples sells, and
everything has worked fine for me. I would rather have a USB
interface, and possibly an Ethernet interface. But I am very happy to
know that I have a rig that is getting firmware updates, and the
hardware was developed in such a way, that it has the ability to grow
and change, as the technology does.
David Wilburn
K4DGW
www.k4dgw.com
www.k4rc.net
Williamsburg Area Amateur Radio Club (K4RC)
My Current LOTW/DXCC/WAS status
www.k4dgw.com/WAS.DXCC.info.html
Matt Patterson wrote:
If your PC has a open PCI slot there are high speed serial cards still
available. Think I paid $26 for the last one I purchased.
73 Matt
W5LL
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 07:24 -0500, R. Kevin Stover wrote:
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DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL wrote:
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not in my opinion!
de Doug KR2Q
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Me neither but they did do something Elecraft had the chance to do and
didn't. USB ports for rig control. I've always considered a Serial to
USB adapter as a " box of chocolates", you never know what you're going
to get. Whether it works or not depends entirely on the chip set used
and the quality of the driver.
Elecraft should have used USB ports. You can't buy a desktop motherboard
by any respected manufacturer that includes a serial port. The LGA 775
board I'm looking at for an upgrade has zero serial ports but 8 on the
mobo backplane and you can add four more to the front or back of the
case with cables and unused motherboard USB headers.
It might be a trivial redesign of the KIO3 but I'm sure it's down the
list if at all.
R. Kevin Stover, ACØH
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