[Elecraft] External sound card advice needed to attach to K3

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

Given the garbage audio heard on the bands, you are one in 10,000
who does not do *some* of the other things with the shack computer.

The number of amateurs using some kind of DX alerting system and/or
streaming music while waiting for someone else to find them "a new
one" to work in significant and you can hear most of their alerts
or music on the air from time to time.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV


On 2021-01-01 2:18 PM, Wes wrote:
> How about using, as I do, a totally separate computer that runs the 
> radio equipment and logging functions.  All of that other stuff is 
> banned from the shack and done on the desktop computer in the office.  I 
> don't need audible alerts of anything, thanks.
> 
> Wes  N7WS
> 
> 
> On 1/1/2021 11:58 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
>>
>> That doesn't prevent other sounds - particularly VoIP (Zoom/Skype)
>> and steaming audio (Pandor, Podcasts, etc.) from reaching the rig
>> (and being transmitted if the digital program is running and/or
>> the VOX is enabled).
>>
>> There *IS NO BETTER SOLUTION* than a separate sound card for the
>> rig connection and proper a properly configured operating system
>> that separates "computer audio" and "radio audio".
>>
>> 73,
>>
>>    ... Joe, W4TV
>>
>>
>> On 2021-01-01 1:20 PM, Wes wrote:
>>> Turn off Windows sounds in Control Panel and operate.
>>>
>>> On 1/1/2021 9:56 AM, Rick Bates, NK7I wrote:
>>>> A generically 'bad' idea and is the reason that voice, operating 
>>>> system sounds (all illegal) and poor audio are often in the digital 
>>>> portions of the bands.
>>>>
>>>> HNY!
>>>> Rick NK7I
>>>>
>>>> On 1/1/2021 8:50 AM, Wes wrote:
>>>>> You don't need a sound card beyond the one in your computer.