I use my standard computers sound card for Digital Mode, works Fine. Save your money! Ray WA6VAB K3
Windows 10 From: [email protected] Sent: Friday, January 1, 2021 2:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] External sound card advice needed to attach to K3 Transmitting voice or music to the FT8 interface is a big problem for other users. It creates interference across the entire SSB filter bandwidth, not just in a single FT8 signal bandwidth. If you operate FT8 or any other digital mode you hear Microsoft musical notes and voice every day. The most reliable way to avoid interfering with every other FT8 user is to use an external sound card. 73 Frank W3LPL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Frantz" <[email protected]> To: "Rick Bates, NK7I" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Friday, January 1, 2021 10:14:13 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] External sound card advice needed to attach to K3 I know the public service/emcom people have pushed on this issue, because a fair number of public service events involve providing communication support for parades, and parades have bands, and bands are quite loud and overcome even a noise canceling microphone. I think there has even been an official ruling that these incidental sounds, that come along for the ride with legal communication, won't get you a notice from the FCC. Now transmitting voice in the CW bands is a different story. For starts, it's not incidental to legal communication. 73 Bill AE6JV On 1/1/21 at 1:22 PM, [email protected] (Rick Bates, NK7I) wrote: >Defined in the simplest of terms, any sound transmitted other >than for the purposes of communication (voice, tones for >digital) is illegal. > >This includes background music in the same room as the >microphone (though generally ignored as part of the >environment, in the US; same as telephone 'hold' music in an >autopatch; traffic noise etc.) and certainly includes the >'musical' sounds from most OS (they offer no communication). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz |The nice thing about standards| Periwinkle (408)348-7900 |is there are so many to choose| 150 Rivermead Rd #235 www.pwpconsult.com |from. - Andrew Tanenbaum | Peterborough, NH 03458 ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
