[aprssig] Need A GOOD USB<--> Serial Dongle? - Great Deal

[Mike George]

I agree with Bob's positive comment for real Prolific adapters.

I have been using 2 Pluggable brand adapters:

http://www.amazon.com/Plugable-Adapter-Prolific-PL2303HX-Chipset/dp/B00425S1H8/ref=lh_ni_t?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3HIHADV23VGU1

for a few years now with Linux, XP, and Windows 7 machines and have 
never had a problem
with them.  I also have some older cables that I forgot the brand of ( I
believe one was Belkin) that I have never had problems with and they
still work with the latest drivers.

Mike George
N3MUY

On 8/14/2014 14:22, Bob Poortinga wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Stephen H. Smith <wa8lmf2 at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> This is the good stuff - this cable is based on the highly-desired FTDI
>> chip, not the problematic Prolific chip that so many cheap dongles use.
> Just to clarify Stephen's comment, dongles which use genuine Prolific
> chips usually work well and have few problems. The real issue is the
> number of devices (usually manufactured in China) which use
> reverse-engineered, counterfeit Prolific chips and are unreliable.
> Recent updates to the Prolific drivers cause devices with counterfeit
> chips to stop working and many people do not understand what is going
> on when an update "bricks" their USB-serial device.
>
> 73 de
> --
> Bob Poortinga  NG9M
> Bloomington, IN  US
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