[Elecraft] Best Audio Interfaces 2020?

[Gwen Patton]

The repurposed Chromebook I use for my field digital operating has the
world's most useless built in sound system. Even if you have one of the
goofy cables that will fit the sound socket, it won't work for digital. I
tried. I looked it up, and it's a design defect in pretty much all
Chromebooks. If you want to really use sound on a Chromebook, you have to
use a sound dongle.

I reflashed the Chromebook, taking out the old ChromeOS and replaced it
with GalliumOS, a Linux distro for Chromebooks, and it works great with a
sound dongle, but the internal sound hardware is just so awful you can't
really use it for much of anything. So I don't I use that Techrise dongle I
got for $17 and it works perfectly. I pair it with my MDS Phaser 40m
digital mode QRP rig, and it makes a very compact little FT8 and JS8
station, with the appropriate Linux versions of the apps installed.

I could have cobbled up something from a Raspberry Pi, but then I'd have to
supply a screen, keyboard, pointing device, and battery. Sort of silly when
I have a lightweight laptop-format device with all that stuff already built
in, that cost very little to begin with.

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73,
Gwen, NG3P


On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 8:16 PM Wes <wes_n7ws at triconet.org> wrote:

> The first thing I do when getting a new (to me) computer is turn off
> Windows sounds.
>
> I watch Youtube using ROKU on the big screen.
>
> Wes  N7WS
>
>
>
>
> On 6/15/2020 2:47 PM, W6IPA wrote:
> > The matter is that you will send all the OS sounds to that interface
> (because you have only one)- and at this point you need to chase all the
> notifications what will be sending sound, and you cannot watch youtube
> anymore :-)
> >
> > JC/W6IPA.
> >
> >> On Jun 15, 2020, at 2:31 PM, Wes <wes_n7ws at triconet.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> What's the matter with the internal soundcard in your computer?
> >>
> >> Wes  N7WS
> >>
> >> On 6/15/2020 9:30 AM, Eric KG6MZS wrote:
> >>> Hello All,
> >>>
> >>> I just scanned the archives for recommendations on a good external USB
> audio interface for sound card digital. In 2017 Jim (K9YC) recommended two
> (ASUS and Newmark) that are no longer available.
> >>>
> >>> What are the current favs that are out there now?
> >>>
> >>> TIA,
> >>> Eric
> >>> KG6MZS
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