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

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

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