Laptop Serial Port Card for K3

[ag6cx]

>From Edward McCann AG6CX:

I am about to set up K3 station and would prefer to provide serial port from newer portable PC (Sony Vaio VGN-FW550F with Windows 7 64 bit)to K3 rather than use USB to Serial adapter. Not being cheap here, but rather trying to provide native serial port interface to keep it simple.

Prices of new PCMCIA cards seem to run from $20 to $100 on Amazon and elsewhere. Has anyone had experience with this matter and can recommend a specific card that has worked for you without glitches?

Thanks.
AG6CX

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[Jim AB3CV]

Keep in mind that what you think is a PCMCIA slot on that new laptop may
not actually be PCMCIA at all. It may be CardBus or something else. Make
sure to read your use manual to find out what is needed. The cards are not
interchangable.

73

jim ab3cv
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[Jim Brown-10]

On 11/2/2011 7:53 AM, edward mccann wrote:
> Prices of new PCMCIA cards seem to run from $20 to $100 on Amazon and elsewhere. Has anyone had experience with this matter and can recommend a specific card that has worked for you without glitches?

Back in 2004, I bought a 2-port PCMCIA card made by Quatech, which has
since been on a lot of Field Days, CA QSO Party county expeditions, and
even a DX trip. It contains two real hardware serial ports and a
pluggable dongle.  I've since bought two more for additional laptops.  
They are not cheap, Quatech is a US company, based in OH, I think.  I've
observed no RFI issues, and they work with signal returns connected to
DB9 connector shells.  .

In recent years, I've heard good things about Edgeport products.  They
were not cheap until they went bankrupt a year or two ago.

73, Jim K9YC
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