[Lowfer] RE: Laptop problem with ARGO

Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:47:28 -0500

Bill

that holds true for my Laptop as well
I just did a simple pot ,, across the input
with the audio to the slider

Bob


On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:51:17 +0100 Alberto di Bene <[email protected]>
writes:
> "Bill Ashlock" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >The problem is that Jay's 115mi QRSS signal here in the shack, is 
> strong, 
> >but blurred in the horizontal direction to the extent that it's 
> difficult to 
> >make out the call. The sensitivity setting doesn't seem to help. My 
> regular 
> >computer in the shack does a good job with Jay's signal and 
> produces nice 
> >dogbones and plenty of intercharacter spacing.
> >
> 
> Bill,
>    the makers of notebooks have found another corner to cut to spare 
> a 
> few cents, and that is
> the line input. If you buy today a notebook, you will find that it 
> has a 
> microphone inpur, but not
> a line input. The audio coming from an R75, or any other radio, is 
> too 
> strong for the mike input,
> and tends to saturate it, even at low volume settings. The best bet 
> is 
> to build an attenuator,
> let's say 20:1, using a couple of resistors. I think that 18 kohm  
> plus 
> 1 kohm could do, though
> I haven't tried it.
> 
> 73  Alberto  I2PHD
> 
> 
> 
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