[Elecraft] Good Low Cost Audio to USB Interfaces For Digital Modes

[Jim Brown]

On 3/8/2012 10:26 PM, wb6rse1 at mac.com wrote:
> Hi Jim - I've been using a Griffin iMic for years. Reliable. 
> Inexpensive. FYI.

Just looked at it.  Looks good, and it might be the same as this one, 
which W0YK swears by.  He takes them to P40X for his record-breaking 
RTTY contest efforts. $29.  I just learned about it when I posted the 
same notes to the NCCC reflector and he responded.

http://www.byterunner.com/byterunner/product_name=UA580/user-id=/password=/exchange=/exact_match=exact

Here's Ed response on the NCCC reflector yesterday, including Iain's 
question to me.

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I've been using a no-name USB soundcard with my traveling contest PCs for a
couple years now with good results.  I discovered recently that it is also
marketed by ByteRunner as their model number is UA580.  It does allow full
duplex and has stereo Line Input so it works well for SO2V RTTY too.
Available from several online vendors besides ByteRunner, and under $30.

Ed - W0YK



Iain, N6ML, wrote:

> I'm curious if either of these support "duplex" operation ...
> i.e. can you connect a mic to the input, connect the output
> to the line-in on the K3, and use them for "live audio" as
> well as recorded messages for software DVK? Some (all?) of
> the cheap USB audio interfaces I've tried didn't seem to be
> able to do that - they could record, and playback, but not
> loop-through...