[SOC] Need suggestions on a Sound Card

[Dominic Baines]

No matter what use isolation interfaces between rig and PC/Laptop.
 
The Sigmalink includes them.
 
ebay/fleabay somtimes have some Soundblaster 24bit external usb sound cards. I use them myself as they were cheap and perform well.
 
72
 
Dom
M1KTA



----- Original Message ----
From: n4lq <n4lq at insightbb.com>
To: Second Class Operators' Club <soc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, 7 September, 2008 3:03:03
Subject: Re: [SOC] Need suggestions on a Sound Card

Yes. PSK is much less demanding on the sound card than voice or music. Your 
cpu will be working overtime on producing the vido display (waterfall) 
however. In fact, if you try and make the waterfall run to fast you risk 
maxing out the cpu at 100% and it can be tough trying to recover from that 
without knowing which files to edit etc.
Steve Ellington
N4LQ at insightbb.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom McCulloch" <thom2 at att.net>
To: "Second Class Operators' Club" <soc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: [SOC] Need suggestions on a Sound Card


> Thanks Steve --  I appreciate your feedback.  I didn't realize that the
> built-in sound on the MB's was sufficient enough for our purposes...I 
> guess
> if it's "free" (well, already paid for) that's the way to go...once I 
> figure
> out if I really want to try a  SDR then I can buy a soundcard for that rig
> and the manufacturer will probably recommend the specs as you related.
>
> Thanks again
> Tom    wb2qdg
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "n4lq" <n4lq at insightbb.com>
> To: "Second Class Operators' Club" <soc at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 9:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [SOC] Need suggestions on a Sound Card
>
>
>> Tom
>> The on-board audio on most motherboards will usually suffice for most
>> psk31 type applications however for SDR you need to do some research. The
>> FlexRadio 5000 has it's own sound card built in to the radio. The older
>> 1000 model requires a fairly robust sound card and Flex specifies which
>> one to get. Check the SDR radio's web site before getting into this. 
>> Other
>> than SDR, you won't notice much difference between sound cards.
>> Oh...You could consider the Tigertronics Signalink USB which is basically
>> an external USB sound card but has cables specific to each rig.
>> Steve Ellington
>> N4LQ at insightbb.com
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Tom McCulloch" <thom2 at att.net>
>> To: "Tom Mc" <thom2 at att.net>
>> Cc: <soc at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 9:29 PM
>> Subject: [SOC] Need suggestions on a Sound Card
>>
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>  I'm looking for a sound card for my PC (Windows XP, at least for now).
>>> I'll be using it for various ham applications, psk31, etc.  and maybe 
>>> SDR
>>> someday, who knows.
>>>
>>> I just re-read the May 2007 QST product review on sound cards and they
>>> said
>>> that 16 bit cards are OK but that 24 bit jobbies are probably better for
>>> more advanced applications.
>>>
>>> That article is over a year old now and was wondering if anyone has any
>>> suggestions as to which card I should consider getting (hopefully it 
>>> will
>>> last a long time and not become too obsolete too soon).  All things
>>> considered I think I would like a free standing unit (i.e. not one where
>>> I
>>> have to crawl behind the compouter everytime I want to plug a cable into
>>> a
>>> jack indentified by a picture of audio waves coming out of someones 
>>> mouth
>>> ,
>>> which never make any sense to me).  But that isn't a deal breaker, if 
>>> the
>>> card has to go into a PCI slot, so be it.
>>>
>>> I appreciate your input and look forward to hearing (no pun) everyones
>>> input.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Tom
>>> WB2QDG
>>> SOC #665
>>>
>>>
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