[amsat-bb] Re: New ICOM VHF / UHF / SHF Radio

[w8iss]

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