Crafty. 'should' be pretty foolproof. Any old soundcard without
48000Hz ought to just throw-up an error.
Andy
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2009/11/19 Graham <[email protected]>:
> All
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> I asked Joe K1JT , this question a short time ago, below is the reply
> G ..
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>> Q : Is there a means to
>> compensate for the sound card sampling rate? ,
>
> No, but I think an even better feature. The sample rate in WSPR 2.0 will
> always be 48000 Hz. This will prevent a problem that occurs in a few
> systems that insist on sampling at 44100 Hz and then resampling (in the
> driver) to the 12000 Hz requested by WSPR 1.2 ... and doing a *very* poor
> job of the resampling.
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> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Andy Talbot" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 5:29 PM
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: LF: WSPR 2.0 is now available
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>>
>> It has a calibration procedure built in, but as far as I can make out,
>> is aimed at solving frequency offset / tuning errors. I may have
>> missed something, but there seems to be no facility to calibrate for
>> soundcard errors in the same way as WSJT does, which can affect symbol
>> timing . As we found in discussion on theis reflector a year or so
>> ago. Sample rate timing error is enough to destroy WSPR decoding
>> even when signals are strong.
>>
>> May be wrong, and will go and re read the appendices associated with
>> calibration, but no mention is made, specifically, of soundcard
>> sampling rate error - only refrences to frequency error.
>> FOrtunately, as WSPR is designed around 12000Hz sampling, this is
>> rarely out by more than a few ppm in most modern cards. See my
>> Column in the latest RadCom for some soundcard sampling rate
>> measurements - and how bad some are
>>
>>
>> Andy
>> www.g4jnt.com
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>> 2009/11/19 Johan Bodin <[email protected]>:
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>>> http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/
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>>> 73
>>> Johan SM6LKM
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