Ray said: I use my standard computers sound card for Digital Mode, works Fine. Save your money! Ray WA6VAB K3
It is perfectly possible to do this. It is electronically possible. And yes, it works fine. But just because you CAN doesn't mean you SHOULD. It is incredibly easy to accidentally transmit music or other spurious sounds because some other piece of software also uses the standard sound card. You're welcome to use your computer and your radio as you see fit, but keep in mind that you do have a responsibility to follow the FCC regulations, and if something you do attracts the attention of a VM or the Enforcement Bureau, you may get a "Certificate of Naughtiness" or some such from the Powers That Be. It's much safer for your license status to spend $10 bucks or so on a USB sound card that you solely use for ham radio digital modes. That keeps any musical Windows alerts, notifications of subscribed Youtube videos, Ebay notifications for auctions you are watching, the baby monitor, or any of a dozen other things that are automatically connected to the Default Sound Devices, from sending anything that might jeopardize your license. If the cat walks on your keyboard while you're getting a cup of coffee, and turns on Spotify, you might come in to see that your cat just Rickrolled the 80-meter FT8 window, and was in the process of telling the world about your WAP when you discovered it. Things happen. Accidents happen. You can overlook something. This is just how things are. But you and I both know that Murphy loves moments like these, and that the perversity of the Universe tends to the maximum. Spend $10 to help keep your $2000 radio from sending extraneous sounds from your $900 PC over the air, because you and I also know that at the precise moment you think "nothing can possibly go wrong" and go get your coffee, three VMs will have JUST tuned up their machines to do a little 80m FT8, and your cat thinks your keyboard feels good under her paws. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 73, Gwen, NG3P On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 7:18 PM Ray <wa6...@gmail.com> wrote: > I use my standard computers sound card for Digital Mode, works Fine. > Save your money! Ray WA6VAB K3 > > Windows 10 > > From: donov...@erols.com > Sent: Friday, January 1, 2021 2:31 PM > To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] External sound card advice needed to attach to K3 > > Transmitting voice or music to the FT8 interface is a big problem for > other users. It creates interference across the entire SSB filter > bandwidth, > not just in a single FT8 signal bandwidth. If you operate FT8 or any > other digital mode you hear Microsoft musical notes and voice every day. > > > The most reliable way to avoid interfering with every other FT8 user > is to use an external sound card. > > > 73 > Frank > W3LPL > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Bill Frantz" <fra...@pwpconsult.com> > To: "Rick Bates, NK7I" <rick.n...@gmail.com> > Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net > Sent: Friday, January 1, 2021 10:14:13 PM > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] External sound card advice needed to attach to K3 > > I know the public service/emcom people have pushed on this > issue, because a fair number of public service events involve > providing communication support for parades, and parades have > bands, and bands are quite loud and overcome even a noise > canceling microphone. I think there has even been an official > ruling that these incidental sounds, that come along for the > ride with legal communication, won't get you a notice from the FCC. > > Now transmitting voice in the CW bands is a different story. For > starts, it's not incidental to legal communication. > > 73 Bill AE6JV > > On 1/1/21 at 1:22 PM, rick.n...@gmail.com (Rick Bates, NK7I) wrote: > > >Defined in the simplest of terms, any sound transmitted other > >than for the purposes of communication (voice, tones for > >digital) is illegal. > > > >This includes background music in the same room as the > >microphone (though generally ignored as part of the > >environment, in the US; same as telephone 'hold' music in an > >autopatch; traffic noise etc.) and certainly includes the > >'musical' sounds from most OS (they offer no communication). > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Bill Frantz |The nice thing about standards| Periwinkle > (408)348-7900 |is there are so many to choose| 150 > Rivermead Rd #235 > www.pwpconsult.com |from. - Andrew Tanenbaum | > Peterborough, NH 03458 > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 donov...@starpower.net > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 wa6...@gmail.com > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 ard...@gmail.com > ______________________________________________________________ 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
