Re: [digitalradio] Re: Good USB sound card ?

2010-08-22 Thread Rein Couperus
I use a CHEAP usb sound card adaptor ( 8 EUROS) on one of my old  Dell laptops which has no soundcard sucessfully for pskmail/puppy linux. Rein PA0R I would be interested to know if Linux even supports these cheap USB sound devices? I did run Linux in the shack for a while and unfortunately

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Good USB sound card ?

2010-08-22 Thread chas
g4ilo wrote: I would be interested to know if Linux even supports these cheap USB sound devices? I did run Linux in the shack for a while and unfortunately sold one of the original RigExpert devices because it wasn't usable under Linux and at the time I though I wouldn't revert back to

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Good USB sound card ?

2010-08-21 Thread Rik van Riel
On 08/14/2010 02:15 PM, g4ilo wrote: Well, that isn't my experience. Regardless of the chip set used, it's the entire product including the drivers that will determine the performance. My suspicion is that these devices run at a fixed sampling rate, and that resampling to the rate requested

[digitalradio] Re: Good USB sound card ?

2010-08-15 Thread graham787
Yes the 11K sample rate may be a problem with the 'new' time critical modes, wspr used to have a sample rate problem where the card rate reduced the 'tx' time and caused problems with sync frames , the othere week while running Ros MF-1/7 on 500 Khz , local decodesd where scrabled

[digitalradio] Re: Good USB sound card ?

2010-08-14 Thread g4ilo
I had one that looks exactly like that though it was sold under another name, and I could not decode 300baud packet at all with it. When used to play back recordings of very weak EME CW all I could hear was band noise. I did try it on my Echolink node for a bit with no apparent problems. So my

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Good USB sound card ?

2010-08-14 Thread Peter Frenning
lør, 14 08 2010 kl. 13:57 +, skrev g4ilo: I had one that looks exactly like that though it was sold under another name, and I could not decode 300baud packet at all with it. When used to play back recordings of very weak EME CW all I could hear was band noise. I did try it on my

[digitalradio] Re: Good USB sound card ?

2010-08-14 Thread g4ilo
Well, that isn't my experience. Regardless of the chip set used, it's the entire product including the drivers that will determine the performance. My suspicion is that these devices run at a fixed sampling rate, and that resampling to the rate requested by the software is carried out by the

[digitalradio] Re: Good USB sound card ?

2010-08-14 Thread g4ilo
I hadn't heard of this software. I have had two of these one pound USB eBay sound devices. One was so poor you could see the noise it generated on the waterfall. I tossed it. The second one I bought to use for computer audio so I could free up the on-board sound card for digimodes. After a

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Good USB sound card ?

2010-08-14 Thread Peter Frenning
lør, 14 08 2010 kl. 18:15 +, skrev g4ilo: Well, that isn't my experience. Regardless of the chip set used, it's the entire product including the drivers that will determine the performance. My suspicion is that these devices run at a fixed sampling rate, and that resampling to the

[digitalradio] Re: Good USB sound card ?

2010-08-14 Thread g4ilo
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Peter Frenning pe...@... wrote: The Signalink USB (which I recommend myself with the caveats on my homepage), uses one of the same Cheap chips used by the low cost general purpose adapters, in this case the USB Audio Codec. As a class of devices you

[digitalradio] Re: Good USB sound card ?

2010-08-13 Thread graham787
Thanks for the link , G.. --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, GregCT n1...@... wrote: This is the one I use, the CreativeMedia X-Fi. Its a little bit larger that today's standard 'thumb' drives, but does double as one. Works well with the rigblaster as well as other 'standard'