Rob, You do not need a high quality soundcard to do AFSK or DATA A modes. Most any run-of-the-mill 16 bitt soundcard will do all that is required. The signal to noise ratio with really el-cheapo cards may be a problem - ARRL reported on that a couple years ago in QST. If you want to do wide-range music stuff or a computer based panadapter, that is a different story. A compromise IMHO is the Creative Labs Soundblaster Live - it is a 24 bit card with good S/N, and will do 96k wide on a panadapter display if you want. I bought 3 of them several years ago, and cannot speak for the current availability. As I recall, the Live was better in S/N than the Audigy.
73, Don W3FPR [email protected] wrote: > My "shack" computer is an old Pentium machine running XP. It is more than > up to providing stutter-free CW and responsive RTTY. Before, I had just a > single (cheap) sound card that I put to use for SO1R RTTY. Now, with the > two new K3s, and having used AFSK successfully, twice, I am planning to > add a second sound card for radio 2. While I'm at it, though, I'm thinking > it would be nice to have two sound cards that are highly thought of for > ham-radio use. I have not used sound cards for SSB contesting purposes, > but might want to try it now that I have one hooked up for AFSK. So, I > would be looking for sound cards that work well. Any recommendations? > > Rob K6RB > > ______________________________________________________________ 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
