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Re: [WriteLog] [CQ-Contest] Quality of Sound Cards?

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Subject: Re: [WriteLog] [CQ-Contest] Quality of Sound Cards?
From: "N7MAL" <N7MAL@CITLINK.NET>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 23:44:21 -0000
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2 years ago when I got hit by lightening and had to replace everything I got 
a Dell computer with built-in sound. It was a bad idea. None of my sound 
related apps worked very well and 'on-the-fly' recordings didn't sound good. 
I ordered a Sound Blaster card and everything is back to normal here. I 
think built-in sound is a real compromise.
73


MAL
N7MAL
BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
http://www.ctaz.com/~suzyq/N7mal.htm

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Eric Rosenberg
  To: cq-contest@contesting.com ; writelog@contesting.com
  Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 18:01
  Subject: [CQ-Contest] Quality of Sound Cards?


  When I upgraded the shack computer from a P3 to a P4 (a 1.6 GHz IBM 
NetVista), I didn't swap the (Soundblaster 16 PCI) sound card.  Instead I am 
using the one built-in to the new computer.

  My station is a HEil Proset feeding an Orion. I use Writelog.

  I made a "recording on the fly" through the during the contest last 
weekend, and the results were sub-par, certainly when compared to the 
recording I made directly into the radio.

  My questions:

  - Is this a software configuration (i.e., how Writelog records) issue?

  - Will the old sound card back sound better than the built-in one (i.e., 
are there greater and lesser than equal sound cards)?  If so, is the Audio 
Delta 44 Audio Card ($159) that the SDR-1000 uses worth the investment?

  73 & Thanks,

  Eric W3DQ
  Washington, DC
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