[Elecraft] [OT] PCI Express sound card for digimodes

[Wes Stewart]

Hi Lance,

Hmmm... I don't think so.  The computer has a 2.3 GHz Core2 Duo processor and 2 GB of RAM.  As I said, but not clearly enough, I gave up on the LP-Pan (for now anyway) so it wasn't running.  The only thing running was whichever RTTY/log software and Firefox, which I use for looking at Internet spots.  Since in some of these contests I was in an unassisted category, even that wasn't always open.

Regards,

Wes

--- On Sat, 1/30/10, Lance Collister <w7gj at q.com> wrote:

> From: Lance Collister <w7gj at q.com>
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [OT] PCI Express sound card for digimodes
> To: "Wes Stewart" <n7ws at yahoo.com>
> Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net, "G4ILOJulian" <julian.g4ilo at gmail.com>
> Date: Saturday, January 30, 2010, 10:38 AM
> Howdy Wes,
> 
> I may be reading something wrong, but it sounds to me like
> you don't need an 
> external sound card - you need a faster computer with more
> RAM. Or you need to 
> disconnect LP-PAN when you are using sound card intensive
> applications.  The 
> problem sounds to me like you are pushing the limits of
> your computer when you run 
> LP-PAN, and adding an external sound card will further tax
> your computer.  The 
> answer I think may be to either reduce the current load by
> eliminating LP-PAN when 
> you run RTTY, or replace the computer with more
> horsepower.  Just my guess...GL 
> and VY 73, Lance
>