--- In [email protected], "sailingto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hello Ken,
>
> I should have asked - is USB 2.0 sufficent for SDR? 

 Perfectly sufficient. Look at the Perseus and the QS1r RF sampling
receivers. Both use USB 2.0, and are able to display, point-and-click,
and record into a WAV file a span of 2 MHz of band, digitized (after
the DDC) with 24 bit resolution. Using a sound card, the bandwidth
requirements are much more relaxed, you won't go beyond 192 kHz of band..

> Would I really buy anything by going to the Firewire/i.Link
> soundcard - other than spending more money?

The only advantage would be that of leaving an USB port free...
But if for you the Firewire is more easy to use, a good external sound
card (if used with the latest drivers...) is the Behringer FCA-202.

Don't know anything about the i.Link, nor about its compatibility with
the IEEE-1394 standard

73  Alberto  I2PHD


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