[NLRS] Shack emptying

[tosca005 at umn.edu]

My radio shack shares the same space with the area where I ran my software 
development business for years and where my electronics hobbies of various 
sorts converged. I have a lot of excess stuff to clear out to get my house 
in Apple Valley ready to sell. (Yes, it's definite now. We have hired a 
realtor and the house will eventually appear on MLS, but not until we clean 
out some of the excess accumulation of 3 decades so he can get some 
pictures of the inside that actually look attractive to a potential buyer.)

Anyway, as I dig through the piles of stuff, I came across a Sound Blaster 
Extigy sound "card". I say "card" because it is an esternal box that plugs 
into a USB port instead of being a card that goes inside of a PC. I bought 
it years ago with plans to use it with a SoftRock SDR. At the time, it was 
a highly regarded sound adapter, capable of a wider panadaptor bandwidth 
than many standard PC sound cards. I no longer have a need for it, since I 
have two other alternatives now, a Flex-1500 which has the sound interface 
built in, and a STM32-SDR which has the sound interface and most of the 
computer smarts built in (no PC required at all except if you are 
developing new firmware for it, or want to load new firmware from the 
working group -- but no PC of any sort needed for its operation).

If anyone wants it, let me know. Price is only $0.00 unless I have to ship 
it somwehere, then whatever postage would cost me. If no takers, I will not 
bother to list it on eBay, it will go with me on one of my many trips to 
the Dakota County recycling center where ewaste can be disposed of for 
free. It is in the original box, and includes the cable and remote control 
that came with it. I seem to have misplaced the original CD but found 
someone who got me a CD-R dupe of the original CD. And you can download 
firmware updates from the Creative Labs web site. Those downloads require 
that you have the original distribution software first, however, which was 
why I bothered to find a copy of the original CD-ROM.

There will doubtless be other stuff that I will elect to sell or give away 
rather than haul down to Texas, but if no one minds (and I doubt that you 
would) I will post that in other messages. For now, just the Extigy.

John P. Toscano, W0JT
952-484-8365
tosca005 at umn.edu