Re: [Aus-soaring]USB to serial

2006-01-20 Thread Mike Borgelt
A few weeks ago there was some discussion here about USB to serial convertors and downloading loggers to PC's with USB ports only which requires the use of USB to serial convertors. I got a EW Model D in for calibration and I thought I'd check the downloads on the various serial ports on the

Re: [Aus-soaring]USB to serial

2006-01-20 Thread Tom Wilksch
I have also been using the prolific USB-serial for downloading from volksloggers and connecting old pda's. Had no problems with it. I wouldn't recommend the Keyspan one though. Very intermittent results. Tom - Original Message - From: Mike Borgelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion

RE: [Aus-soaring]USB to serial

2006-01-20 Thread conway
Surprised to hear that -I've found them the most reliable -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Wilksch Sent: Friday, 20 January 2006 7:07 PM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring]USB to serial

RE: [Aus-soaring] Met Page.

2006-01-20 Thread Graeme Cant
Peter, What a good find! Thank you. Graeme Cant From: Peter Creswick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net Subject:

Re: [Aus-soaring]USB to serial

2006-01-20 Thread Tom Wilksch
Oops, well the particular one im referring to is yours :-) Just could not get it to work with Active Sync on my old Aero 1550, but the Prolofic one works first time every time. Maybe just an active sync thing. I never tried it with a Volkslogger. Tom - Original Message - From:

[Aus-soaring] Tom Iggulden reporting

2006-01-20 Thread Ian McPhee
In case sombody out there isinterested if youlisten to ABC AM or PM (or watch Lateline/7.30report)you will often hear the name "Tom Iggulden reporting" Recently Tom wonwith others in teamthe Walkley Award 2005 for Television Current Affairs Journalism for his report on Lateline on the

[Aus-soaring] Anyone interested in creating a gliding Wiki ?

2006-01-20 Thread Jason Armistead
All After being a list member for several years, it occurred to me that perhaps it's time we created a Wiki, along the lines of Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org) where all of us can contribute to the greater knowledge of gliding, instruments, etc. We could also host historical competition

Re: [Aus-soaring] Anyone interested in creating a gliding Wiki ?

2006-01-20 Thread Scott Penrose
I think it is a great idea ! I have already started to put one up for our club (using infact, mediawiki). I could easily run one for the larger community as well. Scott On 21/01/2006, at 14:44, Jason Armistead wrote: All After being a list member for several years, it occurred to me that