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

[Art McBride]

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 at amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at 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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