I just acquired a Windows Vista tower computer - the price was right it was free! Seems that there is a problem with the internal sound card, but everything else checks out FB. I plan on using it wit
I plan on using it with WSPR and other digital modes, am thinking of an external USB sound card - will any old sound card do ? Or do I need one with a calibrated sampling rate? I suspect that I will
Hi Warren, I have 4 of these external cards in use & find them excellent. Creative model SB0490, I got them at quite a low price on E-Bay. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Creative-Sound-Blaster-24-bit-Exter
Hi Warren, Yes, I had an internal (on main board) & used it for a while for my grabber when 73kHz was first allocated to USA. It was good to about 94kHz. The SB0490 I suggested is only 96kHz :-(( 73,
Thanks Gary! Just ordered one through Ebay 73 Warren On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Gary - G4WGT <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Warren, Yes, I had an internal (on main board) & used it for a while
Hi Warren, Cheap devices for 3 EUR (or $) will do most jobs very well. But it may be worth to spend some more money. 192 kHz sampling rate is available for a low price. But you may first try to insta
Hi Jim, Gary ! Experiences with Software Defined Radios ("Softrock" type) over years showed me the highs and lows of using a soundcard as an A/D-converter for HamRadio use. The situation improved fro
Thanks for the run down Tobias The windows re-sampling caused problems with wspr in the early days on MF , as its possible that wspr had never been used in a situation where 100% of the signal arrive
Thanks to Stefan, Jim, Tobias, and Gary for your help and suggestions. I deleted the Windows driver for the internal sound card and re-booted the machine, it then reinstalled a fresh driver and the i
Graham and Tobias, Thanks for all of the information, I'm looking forward to implementing the options that you mentioned. 73, Jim AA5BW Thanks for the run down Tobias The windows re-sampling caused p
Slightly OT but does anyone have experience with external Soundblaster 'Extigy' and Linux. 73 Thanks for all of the information, I'm looking forward to implementing the options that you mentioned. 73