Re: [Elecraft] what soundcard for K3 and Mac

This list was updated in 2018. http://www.telepostinc.com/soundcards.html wunder K6WRU Walter Underwood CM87wj http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > On Oct 31, 2021, at 11:54 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: > > >> What I haven’t quite figured

Re: [Elecraft] what soundcard for K3 and Mac

What I haven’t quite figured out is how important is this really is to weak signal digital decoding. Low noise in a sound card is important to weak signal decoding in two ways: 1) you want the inherent noise floor in the sound card to be 10 to 15 dB *LESS* than the minimum - receiver

Re: [Elecraft] what soundcard for K3 and Mac

Dave, This interest caught my eye awhile back: http://members.chello.at/oe1mww/sound-card-check/ I’ve tested several of the inexpensive (<$10) nameless USB sound card dongles using his method and saw a wide variety of noise floors - however

Re: [Elecraft] what soundcard for K3 and Mac

On 10/30/2021 7:49 PM, David Christ wrote: Jim Brown made a number of suggestions in a paper from 2014. However the market has changed. Those models are all discontinued and those manufacturers' follow ons are much more expensive and have features that are not needed for sound card modes.

Re: [Elecraft] what soundcard for K3 and Mac

On 10/30/21 at 10:49 PM, radio...@mchsi.com (David Christ) wrote: So can any one recommend a tried and true sound card interface for use between an K3 (without a sound card) and a MacBook Pro (which has no mike or line in jack)? I would like to hear from people who have actually the unit,

[Elecraft] what soundcard for K3 and Mac

Yes this has been bead to death previously. Jim Brown made a number of suggestions in a paper from 2014. However the market has changed. Those models are all discontinued and those manufacturers' follow ons are much more expensive and have features that are not needed for sound card modes.