See also my Contest University presentation, "Everything You Need to Know
About USB and Serial Interfaces" (
https://bit.ly/USBserial) for photos of
these adpaters plus tips on managing all those virtual serial ports.
There's a link to this and other presentations on my QRZ.COM page (
https://www.qrz.com/db/n6tv).
A genuine FTDI USB-to-Serial adapter is built into the S-BOX-USB (or two of
them in S-BOX-USB-2). The S-BOX-USB models can be used to drive a K3, KX2
or KX3 using standard cables, no soldering needed. You can even get the
equivalent of the K3S menu setting "CONFIG:RTS-DTR PTT-KEY" for a KX2 or
KX3. That is, you get rig control plus computer-generated PTT and CW
keying over a single USB cable when using an S-BOX-USB to connect the PC to
the transceiver.
Finally, many folks have used the standard S-BOX (no USB) with a K3S + P3 +
CBLP3Y to split the serial data in the Elecraft Y-cable to a SteppIR
antenna controller or similar.
More info. at the links below.
73,
Bob, N6TV
https://bit.ly/S-BOXhttps://bit.ly/Y-BOXOn Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 2:14 PM Richard Donner <
[hidden email]>
wrote:
> Thank you for the replies. Looks like one less issue to fuss with😁
> Richard
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