ICOM trash software for the D800H is terrible, and the OPC-UP478C serial to USB adapter that they sell as an accessory will not work on Vista. The FTDI chips are the best solution, but ICOM doesn't make money selling an FTDI solution. After an IC-820 and the D800 I am looking for another brand of radio. Will their new radio USB run on Vista? Art KC6UQH -----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of w8iss Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 5:09 PM To: Bruce Robertson Cc: AMSAT-BB Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: New ICOM VHF / UHF / SHF Radio
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 20:56 -0300, Bruce Robertson wrote: Finally, it appears this rig has a USB port. It really would make
sense for manufacturers today to use the FTDI serial chip and avoid all the silliness with serial/usb converters not working properly with their protocols.
73, Bruce VE9QRP
Why not just go ethernet and assign an MAC address to it and be done with it or is ethernet another one of those protocols that have gone the route of the serial port?
James W8ISS
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