From: "Ko Versteeg" <nl9222tv@tref.nl>
To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org
Subject: LF: Re: re Sound cards
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 15:11:44 +0100
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Alan & others,
Find spectran  at:
http://members.xoom.com/spectran/


73's de  Ko,  NL9222.     JO22KF

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> From: Alan Melia <Alan.Melia@btinternet.com>
> To: rsgb_lf_group <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
> Subject: LF: re Sound cards
> Date: Saturday, January 08, 2000 2:00 PM
> 
> Hi All, well I was a bit bemused by the troubles with Spectrogram and PCI
> sound cards. I must be lucky. I have had a lot of trouble with emulator
> cards and on-board sound cards. I run Spectrogram on a K6-200 (quite
> pedestrian these days) under Win95 using a PCI 64 (genuine Creative Labs
> version NOT a look-a-like, this may be important) and use 5.5k samples
all
> the time, and mostly use 16k FFT points. I have recently been using it
for
> long term monitoring around the WA2XTF frequency, and I have NEVER had it
> crash on me over 100s of hours of use in the last 9 months. I have not
tried
> to use it under DOS. The only probem saving files has occured when there
is
> not enough disk space available. I keep forgetting to empty the bin!! The
> only time Gram has crashed was when I asked it save a wav. file and it
ran
> out of disk space after about 45 minutes (I'm mean and using old small
> disks!)
> 
> FFTDSP4 objects if I do not run it from a clean boot (it is running on a
> machine which also has Win3.1 on it) it just doesn't see the sound card.
> 
>  I have aa copy Hamview that was written by the two Italian stations
(I2PHD
> and IK2CZL) and runs under DOS also needs a genuine Creative Labs sound
card
> as it writes direct to the card. This crashes regularly on my Cyrix MII
-300
> with SB-16. Its disadvantage is that it has too wide a spectrum (only 2Hz
> resolution) Maybe Spectran is an upgrade??  I havent found that yet but I
> see a site in the messages.
> 
> Cheers de Alan G3NYK
> Alan.Melia@btinternet.com
> 
>