I'm sure I'll get something pricier than .99. In a lot of cases tho, the 'no-brand' stuff isn't good enough. Putting the add-on as primary is a good thought.
73, Mike On 8/9/2010 10:21 AM, Julian, G4ILO wrote: > > 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 > ______________________________________________________________ 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
