[Ham-Mac] Re USB Interfaces for Ham Radio

[Willard Myers]

On Monday, February 4, 2002, at 07:17 , Chris Smolinski wrote:

> If an Icom or Kenwood or whatever radio came out with a USB port, you
> can bet that it will *only* have a Windows driver. Too bad, as with the
> USB interface you could both control the radio and get sound over the
> USB link as well, as an audio input source (which for HF would not have
> to be 44.1 kHz 16 bit stereo, I think 11 kHz 8 bit mono would suffice!
> <g> )

I hope the <g> means that you know that 8 bit audio would be inadequate. 
We need at least 12 bit dynamic range...

Bill, K1GQ