Mike-14-3 wrote: > > > This will mostly be on XP, with occasional excursions on Win7. What does > "directly > selecting the endpoint" mean? I'm real new to Win7. > > I saw some 99 cent units on the estore. Maybe a bit TOO cheap. ;-) > >
I have tried some of these cheap units from eBay. Too cheap is right. They may seem to work on PSK31 and they are fine for audio but I doubt if weak signal copy of digimodes is very good. I tried using one for packet and even though the signal looked OK on the waterfall I never decoded a single packet. I don't know what the bit resolution or sample rate they use but I suspect the drivers do a crude resampling between the parameters the software selects and the ones the device actually runs at and a lot of information gets lost in the process. What you can do, though, is reconfigure windows so the cheapie USB adapter is the default for computer audio, which frees up the on board sound card for digital radio use. Despite comments in various places to the contrary, I've always found the built-in audio chips to work pretty well for digital modes. ----- Julian, G4ILO. K2 #392 K3 #222. * G4ILO's Shack - http://www.g4ilo.com * KComm - http://www.g4ilo.com/kcomm.html * KTune - http://www.g4ilo.com/ktune.html -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-MMTTY-tp5384119p5389166.html Sent from the [K3] mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
