> Eric Wachsmann - FlexRadio wrote: > [snip] > All true. > > It is also true that I took a rather ordinary Celeron laptop and an > Extigy to Belize last year and it worked very well under contest > conditions (at the time, the Extigy was basically all we had). Of > course, we were the pursued, which didn't hurt. > > Still, after spending 1500 dollars or so on the SDR, scrimping on the > sound card (which I have done) maybe isn't the thing to do, even as I am > still doing that (on the lappy, at least). > > But, if that's where you balance out, you can do well. >
A colleague reminded me that while my rig was in-line for the contest, the actual lappy was not mine and was more powerful (1.8 GHz, real Pentium). But, in tests before I went to Belize, my lappy did work well enough, if not fabulously. Perhaps it would not have worked superbly well in the contest proper (my Celeron-based box does skip the odd bit of audio), but even allowing for that, I think we could have "got by" with it if we had to. I just can't claim it. In any case, it was the Extigy for the sound card on the lappy-based station. With "enough CPU" behind it, it did the job, inferior specs on the sound card vis a vis better setups notwithstanding. Larry WO0Z _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
