Well, they do say opinions are like...
Shout all you want, but it is not imperative that you have a separate sound
card. The computer's integrated sound card can be "dedicated" to ham radio.
Keeping Windows sounds from playing through the radio is no different from not
transmitting outside the band. It's something that is supposed to be in our
skill set.
I have both a SignaLink and a Tascam US-100 (highly recommended by Jim Brown).
On RTTY, neither of these is either better, or worse, than the built-in card in
my laptop, and both require a USB port, something in short supply.
It's curious that we have this relatively tiny box of a radio that suffers from
poor ergonomics because of it and then we're supposed to festoon it with dongles
to make it play.
Wes N7WS
On 5/14/2014 3:09 AM, Joel Black wrote:
[snip]
This is not directed at you, but it is a preemptive statement to those who
will say you do not *need* the SignaLink: I apologize in advance for
"shouting," YOU NEED A SOUND CARD THAT IS DEDICATED TO AMATEUR RADIO AND
*SEPARATE* FROM YOUR MAIN SOUND. Just yesterday, on 20 m JT65, I heard
someone's WinXP "shutdown" sound over the air. You spent a couple of thousand
on the K3, please be kind enough to the rest of us to spend another $100 or so
and get a nice sound card. Yes, you'll hear all day that the K3 has the
ability to take audio directly from the sound card. It is a wonderful feature.
I use it. I use it with an amateur radio-dedicated sound card only.
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