If you still have an ISA card free in your computer, Byterunner
has a very reasonably priced solution. I have been using their 4 port
ISA cards for several years now. My current configuration has
all four Byterunner ports sharing IRQ 10. The good news / bad news
is the ISA cards are not plug and play. (If you are technically very
computer literate, this is good news. If you are technically
computer challenged, this is bad news.) You can get one of the
Byterunner ISA cards for less than $50: http://www.byterunner.com
73, Bruce
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-wf1b-rtty@wf1b.com [mailto:owner-wf1b-rtty@wf1b.com]On
> Behalf Of Carter Grabarczyk
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 9:41 PM
> To: writelog@contesting.com; wf1b-rtty@wf1b.com
> Subject: Comm ports
>
>
>
> It seems that the consensus on USB to serial ports is that there is no
> consensus (not to mention problems like "stuttering and not passing
> Baudot).
>
> I have heard that there are such things and serial port cards that use
> one slot and have 4 (?) com ports out. The trick is that this card has
> its own microprocessor on board that is a "traffic cop" for the IRQs.
> They are supposedly a little pricey ($100-125) because of the on-board
> microprocessor (but the USB to serial devices aren't exactly cheap
> either).
>
> Any comments or suggestions as to if they work and which one to get?
>
> Thanks,
>
> 73/Carter/K8VT
>
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