Re: [Elecraft] sound card recommendations

2010-04-06 Thread Julius Fazekas n2wn
Rob, you might trying posting on CQ-Contest too for a contest related opinion. I've used the built in to the motherboard sound card on an old Win2K machine for SSB DVK with N1MM and it works well. So I would think that any decent middle of the road sound card should be fine for this app. It's

Re: [Elecraft] sound card recommendations

2010-04-05 Thread Don Wilhelm
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-r

[Elecraft] sound card recommendations

2010-04-05 Thread k6rb
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