[digitalradio] Re: Sound Cards

2009-06-19 Thread Vojtech Bubnik
Hi Skip and others. I bought the other USB sound card dongle: http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=CL-USCM2cpc=SCH I was disappointed with it. The microphone input was noisy and A/D resolution was far lower than 16 bits. I do not remember exactly, I think it was either 10 or 12 bits. With

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Sound Cards

2009-06-19 Thread kh6ty
Hi Vojtech, My experience with it was strictly anecdotal, and had no noticeable problems on the air on HF compared to the SignaLink, but I did not make any quantitative evaluation other than to notice the absence of the low end noise on the waterfall that my SignaLink has. I just checked it

[digitalradio] Re: Sound Cards

2009-06-18 Thread Craig Wallen AC4M
I would choose a sound card with the lowest THD% or Total Harmonic Distortion if you can find the specs. Also choose a sound card with a high SNR (signal to noise ratio) and you should be pretty happy with the card, Then make sure to use some extra ferrite on the audio lines to help keep any