[Xastir] Hardware

[Fred Hillhouse]

FWIW, I have one of these and I have used it on my WinXP and Win7 machines
without a hitch. Of course all of my USB<>RS232 adapters (FTDI and Prolific)
work without a hitch. Having not used Linux, YMMV.

Best regards,
Fred, N7FMH



> -----Original Message-----
> From: xastir-bounces at lists.xastir.org 
> [mailto:xastir-bounces at lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of Ray Wells
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 00:48
> To: xastir at lists.xastir.org
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Hardware
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion re FTDI. I already have a powered 
> hub and, in fact, the RPi runs from it. I've been evaluating 
> soundmodem and although I can see traffic with 
> soundmodemconfig, results are generally quite disappointing 
> with regard to reliability and repeatability. I have similar 
> disappointment with my main computer, not just the RPi so 
> I've decided TNCs of one sort or another is the way to go.
> 
> Ray vk2tv
> 
> On 21/08/12 21:20, Andrew Errington wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 19:35:18 Ray Wells wrote:
> >> I'm setting up a Raspberry Pi to use as an aprs gateway 
> (30m, 2m and 
> >> 2m satgate).
> >>
> >> Does anyone on the list have any thoughts on using a USB to 4 port 
> >> RS232 adapter to provide serial ports for TNCs.  The RPi 
> has only USB.
> >>
> >> Ray vk2tv
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> > Should be fine, but I would make two recommendations (not 
> that I am in 
> > the same situation, but here's what I would do if I was).
> >
> > 1) Use a powered USB hub
> > This will reduce the load on the RPi PSU and circuitry.
> > 2) Use FTDI-based USB-to-serial-converters Each one has (or should 
> > have) a unique serial number which can be queried by udev.  You can 
> > use this feature to ensure that you can map the same device to the 
> > same port every time you reboot.
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Andrew
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