[RTTY] Affordable PCI sound card recommendations?

[Dave Hachadorian]

I use the Soundblaster Live 24 bit, which is available on 
EBay for under $15, including shipping. It works fine with 
Win XP on decoding rtty from two radios, and ssb transmit, 
with the left/right microphone switching/muting and wav 
playing. The only slight inconvenience is that it has only 
one input, mic/line. You designate in the volume controls 
whether it is mic or line that is enabled. This prevents you 
from recording an entire ssb contest, and requires minor 
repatching between rtty and ssb contests (remove mic, plug 
in audio from rx), but otherwise it works fine. I haven't 
tried afsk, but it is really clean on ssb, so I suspect it 
would work fb on afsk. Just install the drivers, not all the 
Creative Labs bloatware.

Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
Yuma, AZ


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Iain MacDonnell - N6ML" <ar at dseven.org>
To: <RTTY at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 3:38 AM
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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