[Elecraft] [K3] MMTTY

[Mike]

  I'm sure I'll get something pricier than .99. In a lot of cases tho, the 'no-brand' 
stuff isn't good enough. Putting the add-on as primary is a good thought.

73, Mike

On 8/9/2010 10:21 AM, Julian, G4ILO wrote:
>
> Mike-14-3 wrote:
>>
>> This will mostly be on XP, with occasional excursions on Win7. What does
>> "directly
>> selecting the endpoint" mean? I'm real new to Win7.
>>
>> I saw some 99 cent units on the estore. Maybe a bit TOO cheap. ;-)
>>
>>
> I have tried some of these cheap units from eBay. Too cheap is right. They
> may seem to work on PSK31 and they are fine for audio but I doubt if weak
> signal copy of digimodes is very good. I tried using one for packet and even
> though the signal looked OK on the waterfall I never decoded a single
> packet. I don't know what the bit resolution or sample rate they use but I
> suspect the drivers do a crude resampling between the parameters the
> software selects and the ones the device actually runs at and a lot of
> information gets lost in the process.
>
> What you can do, though, is reconfigure windows so the cheapie USB adapter
> is the default for computer audio, which frees up the on board sound card
> for digital radio use. Despite comments in various places to the contrary,
> I've always found the built-in audio chips to work pretty well for digital
> modes.
>
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