[Elecraft] USB Soundcard

[Barry LaZar]

Jim,
     The Asus cards are about $60-$70 and my Steinberg was $120. It makes 
no sense to spend that amount of money for a card for an application 
that will work just fine with your computer's built in card. However, 
you will need some additional "stuff", like isolation and a PTT method 
if you don't use vox. That is why I recommend that something like a 
SignLink USB, or equal, be used. To go some other way, the bottom line 
costs will run you more than than either card to do it right. And, yes 
there are really cheap cards out there for $20, but they just won't 
perform for spectrum viewing.

     I suggest looking at this for picking a card to view the spectrum: 
http://www.telepostinc.com/soundcards.html and a SignaLink USB for its 
simplicity to make work for running digital modes.

73,
Barry
K3NDM

------ Original Message ------
From: "Jim Brown" <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Sent: 1/19/2016 12:54:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] USB Soundcard

>On Mon,1/18/2016 8:35 PM, Barry LaZar wrote:
>>A card useful for spectrum is massive overkill for running the digital 
>>modes.
>
>Not if it's half the cost of the lower bandwidth units!
>
>
>On Mon,1/18/2016 8:06 PM, Walter Underwood wrote:
>>There are some pretty convincing measurements that show that the 
>>SignaLink USB is not as good as it should be.
>
>Yes.
>
>>For this application, the SignaLink is useless, because for I/Q output 
>>from the KX3, he’ll need stereo in. The SignaLink is mono.
>
>Yes.
>
>The SignaLink is a pretty old design. In the digital world, 10 years is 
>forever!  And it's VERY overpriced for what it is. It's popular ONLY 
>because of lots of advertising hype from the vendors reselling it.
>
>73, Jim K9YC
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