* On 2024 16 Sep 14:01 -0500, Rick Bates, nk7i wrote: > I submit that using the mobo sound card for radio, is a poor choice. > > The OS will use it (if it is using the GUI, not text only); which means > tones, belches, tunes and other can be transmitted (incidentally or not). > If you listen to FT8, you'll often hear TV, pets, local room chatter; OS > noises and worse (a violation in the US, it's not the phone band). Much of > that 'stuff' is also at full bandwidth (2700 Hz wide).
That might be true on other systems but with the Pipewire/PulseAudio daemons configured to set my USB speakers as a default what you describe has never been a problem. I have heard what you describe which seem to invariably be sounds from MS Windows. 73, Nate, N0NB -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
