[CQ-Contest] PED / Soundblaster problem

[Peter Reed]

Hi all. I recently built myself a new PC and installed a genuine Soundblaster
sound card. All the WIN 95 programs using sound are running fine. I have, as
far as I am aware, installed the DOS drivers OK and appropriate command lines
have, as far as I can see, been installed OK in the autoexec.bat and config.sys
files.
However, I don't have any DOS games / applications to test out the soundcard
in DOS but I do have PED. Since I installed the Soundblaster I was hoping to
get the 9-station pile-up situation running (very impressive when I heard
it on a friend's machine). But all I get is the usual PC speaker bleeping
away one signal.
I wonder if it is a problem with the way the sounblaster card is set up or 
whether there is something to configure with PED. The reason I say this is
that when starting up PED, a typical routine is:
select CQWW.PED
select Pile up trainer
enter call
enter number
choose keyboard
choose contest
choose chaos
choose bandwidtyh
and start
The thing which confuses me is that when going through this setup, in the box
which appears to the right there is a line "Pile up stations : 1 (Beep)"

Now, should PED detect the sound card and set this to something other than
"1 Beep" or should I do something to tell PED there is a sound card present
and do more than just beep?!

Any help, hints or tips will be gratefully received.

Thanks and 73,

Peter G4BVH

P.L.Reed at sussex.ac.uk

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>From Zack Lau <zlau at arrl.org>  Wed Mar 12 14:14:53 1997
From: Zack Lau <zlau at arrl.org> (Zack Lau)
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 09:14:53 -0500
Subject: [CQ-Contest] 830s...tks\!
References: <5g67ac$uen at mgate.arrl.org>
Message-ID: <3326BA5D.50DD at arrl.org>

Robert Naumann wrote:

> Another good reason for using an 830 as a second rig is that it produces no
> phase noise whatsoever - it can't as it's not that kind of technology.

All real oscillators have phase noise. Including the 2 watt
crystal controlled 6L6 tube rig I measured.  See chapter 7.5 in
Intro to RF Design by Wes Hayward for a college level discussion.

Also, the TS-830 uses a phased locked loop circuit to save on 
crystals, along with a 5.5 to 6 MHz VFO.  So, it qualifies as 
a rig with a PLL.

Zack Lau W1VT  zlau at arrl.org

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