I did get through to him, and all of the USB products are only prototypes at
this time. He has gotten a huge amount of positive response, and will begin
planning to produce these USB products.
>From my perspective, if the W5XD keyer box, or even more so if the ZS4TX voice
>& CW keyer box was USB driven, it would sell like crazy.
USB works. I have a scanner, a photo printer, 2 digital cameras, and an MP3
player that use USB and they all work flawlessly on one of those little 4 port
USB hubs.
No IRQ's to mess with and no conflicts.
I can't wait.
N5NJ
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From: "Ivan Dobrocky" <dobrocky@24on.cc>
Date: 2003/11/12 Wed PM 01:44:00 CST
To: "W5PR" <W5PR@swbell.net>,
"Bob McCormick W1QA" <writelog@W1QA.com>, <writelog@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] USB Support
use OM7ZZ@microham.com
or OM7ZZ@stonline.sk
73
Ivan OE1DIA / OM3LA
----- Original Message -----
From: "W5PR" <W5PR@swbell.net>
To: "Bob McCormick W1QA" <writelog@W1QA.com>; <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] USB Support
>
> I tried to send him a message to: om7zz@stonline.sksk but it bounced...
>
> Chuck W5PR
>
>
>
>
> > > See this posting to the CQ-Contest reflector by OM7ZZ:
> > >
> > http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/2003-11/msg00103.html
> >
> > Thanks Jim: pretty cool ...
> >
> > http://www.microham.com/USB1.jpg
> >
> > Few thoughts / observations come to mind:
> >
> > - not sure what kind of power these things draw ...
> > but I've seen a number of situations, especially
> > with older, first go-round implementation of USB,
> > where people plug in a lot of things and exceed
> > what the system can handle
> >
> > - I've used a small, external optionally powered
> > USB hub (I think Belkin - will have to get behind
> > the system to check it out) ... and it had RFI
> > ingress issues
> >
> > - the aforementioned photo link above ...
> > shows a lot of cable between the USB interface
> > and the rig jacks ... from experience trying
> > to build up an SO2R setup chokes may be
> > necessary on many/all of these connections
> >
> > One last, final thought:
> >
> > Appears that that nifty device does a number of things:
> > CW keying, PTT and rig control (assume freq, etc.).
> >
> > I hope that those functions can be *independantly* controled ...
> > for situations like what we're doing: using the W5XD (or some
> > other) box for CW, etc.
> >
> > 73 Bob W1QA
> >
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