[Fwd: Re: USB to serial angst]

[Eric Manning]

Gang

It's been a great discussion and a real eye-opener for this naive
academic,  who assumed that USB is properly regulated  by an IEEE
Standard [it is  not]
and that a well-engineered, standard-observant and  portable USB driver
exists. [It doesn't.] Thank you all for helping to set me straight!

The takeaways for me:

*There is presently no feasible alternative to RS 232 as an Interface.
Wayne & Eric made the right choice. USB is a non-starter, being FUBARd
due to the lack of an enforced  standard. What's more,

* RS 232 is plenty good enough for the undemanding radio control or
"knob-substitution"  task. [Audio & video transmission may be another
matter, but that's for another time.]

* There's no call to sniff at  RS -232 just because it's almost a
half-century old. Unix [tm]  is about forty years old, and still the
reliability and efficiency champ.
[No, I don't want to start a controversy on that!]

* Desktop PCs are better than laptops for radio control, because you can
fit RS232 cards to them. And laptops may have noise problems due to
sloppy construction.

* There are many - way too many -  radio communication protocol
"standards" - Kenwood, K3, etc etc. We must just Get Used To It
[until YaeWoodCom sees the light and imitates the K3].

eric

VA7DZ
K3 3620



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[n7ws]

Before slapping around the other manufacturers, I think you'll find that the K3 follows the Kenwood protocols, not the other way around.

--- On Wed, 3/17/10, eric manning <[hidden email]> wrote:

[snip]

>
> * Desktop PCs are better than laptops for radio control,
> because you can
> fit RS232 cards to them. And laptops may have noise
> problems due to
> sloppy construction.
>
> * There are many - way too many -  radio communication
> protocol
> "standards" - Kenwood, K3, etc etc. We must just Get Used
> To It
> [until YaeWoodCom sees the light and imitates the K3].

     
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