[RTTY] Affordable PCI sound card recommendations?

[Ed Muns]

In BARTG Sprint, I ran the EMU-0202 on one radio and the motherboard
soundcard in a 20-year old 400 MHz PC on the other radio.  I couldn't tell
any difference in decoding between the two.  I've never found soundcard
"quality" to be an issue with RTTY, but I can believe it would matter for
some of the other digital modes.

Ed - W0YK 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com 
> [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Iain 
> MacDonnell - N6ML
> Sent: Wednesday, 04 February, 2009 20:37
> To: Robert Chudek - K0RC
> Cc: RTTY at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Affordable PCI sound card recommendations?
> 
> 
> Hi Bob,
> 
> The problem was that weaker signals were not decoding 
> (cleanly). It's difficult to quantify, but judging by ear, 
> the signals should have been strong enough to fully copy. 
> Changing from the on-board - most likely AC97-based (I'm not 
> at the site now) - interface to a couple of different USB 
> devices (an EMU-0202 and a Griffin iMic2) cleared the problem 
> right up - those weaker signals started decoding just fine.
> 
> I think I'm going to go for something in the sound blaster 
> line. I'd like to have something that does most of the work 
> in hardware, rather than a software codec - it just seems 
> like that might be more reliable.
> 
> Thanks for the input... and for Qs in a bunch of recent contests :)
> 
>      ~Iain / N6ML
> 
> 
> 
> Robert Chudek - K0RC wrote:
> > "We've tried the on-board audio with MMTTY, and had major problems 
> > decoding."
> > 
> > What were the major problems you experienced decoding?
> > 
> > To answer you question, virtually any soundcard will provide good 
> > results. The SB Live! series work well.
> > 
> > 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Iain MacDonnell - N6ML" 
> > <ar at dseven.org>
> > To: <RTTY at contesting.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 9:38 PM
> > Subject: [RTTY] Affordable PCI sound card recommendations?
> > 
> > 
> >>
> >> I need to outfit a number of WinXP PCs at a contest 
> station for RTTY. 
> >> We've tried the on-board audio with MMTTY, and had major problems 
> >> decoding. I got around this for the last contest (RU) by using 
> >> external USB audio interfaces, but want to install 
> something internal 
> >> in each PC to make it permanent. I've seen a number of 
> Sound Blaster 
> >> Live! options on eBay in the order of $10-15 shipped, but 
> thought I'd 
> >> ask here if there are any particular models that work well, or are 
> >> known to not work well for RTTY decoding (and maybe AFSK transmit 
> >> too).
> >>
> >> TIA for any recommendations...
> >>
> >>     ~Iain / N6ML
> >>
> >>
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