Review Details

4-Port USB to Serial Adapter COM Retention FTDI Chipset 920K Baud Rate

Product Review (submitted on March 13, 2012):

I installed this cable on a machine running XP Pro/SP3. I did a Windows Update prior to the installation. I let the OS find the driver on the provided CD ROM, rebooted, and the new COM ports were there. I redefined the ports using the Hardware Manager and the designations have "stuck" so far after about a dozen re-boots.

FWIW, I tried the cable with CTWin, Logger32, and N1MM. All worked fine, correctly communicating with two radios on two different COM ports and a Rotor-EZ equipped rotator on a third COM port. I have not tried it with WinKey as my LPT keying works fine (ergo, I do not use WinKey).

I experienced no RF susceptability problems on 160m-10m at 100W and 700W power power levels.

The "octopus" cables are conveniently long so that I do not need any extensions from the compuer which sits to the side of the radios.

The price of this quad converter is about half of another alternative that was recommended as being proven with Ham applications.