[RTTY] Sound card

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

Ron,

These days its far easier to use a USB "card" for the second sound
device.

AA5AU uses this one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829128010

I generally recommend one of these since they have separate mic and
line inputs for use with N1MM Logger and Writelog.  The second one
is identical to the one AA5AU uses but priced $10 less.

     http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829126101
     http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829180006

It is getting more difficult to find reliable PCI bus sound cards
with both mic and line inputs.  Even the old standby Creative Labs
no longer has the separate inputs in their inexpensive PCI and PCI-E
cards.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV


On 3/18/2011 4:34 PM, Ron Hall, Sr. wrote:
> A friend of mine is wanting to get on RTTY and PSK.  His computer is a desktop
> running XP Home OS.  His present sound card, chip on motherboard, is used for
> Skype so the speaker output and microphone jacks are used.  He does have one
> comm port that is going to be used for radio control of the Icom IC-746PRO.
>
> I was wondering if any of the RTTY crowd is using a second card on the PCI buss?
> A few years ago I had a Turtle Beach card that was used for RTTY as a second card
> and XP seemed to handle it OK.  SO2R is not planned for now.
>
> Any information would be helpful.
>
> 73  Ron  KP2N
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