[Elecraft] Fw: RTTY Questions

[Jim Brown]

On 4/20/2012 9:36 AM, Bill Frantz wrote:
> With a K3, the audio starts in digital form in the DSP.
> Converting it to analog to convert it back to digital for input
> to the computer can only introduce distortion.
>
> I'm lobbying Elecraft for a direct digital interface.

Yes, but -- there is the issue of the FORMAT of the digital data, both 
from the points of view of encoding and of physical interface, which are 
likely to be quite different within the radio and the computer, and the 
two systems must be able to talk to each other. Given that there are 
many low cost A/D -- D/A converter/interfaces on the market that work 
fine, that's a wheel that Elecraft does not need to invent.

73, Jim K9YC