[RTTY] USB Dongle Sound Cards

[Rick Ellison]

I have 3 of these USB sound devices plugged into my computer. 2 of them are
for 2 radio digital work that work perfect and I have had no trouble making
them work with any of the digital apps that I run and one of them is
dedicated for Skype use and have no trouble with audio there either
listening or talking. And the best part is they are $2.80 each with free
shipping. It takes about 2 weeks to get them but hey..

http://dx.com/p/5-1-channel-usb-sound-card-adapter-green-59038

73 Rick N2AMG

-----Original Message-----
From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Kok Chen
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 5:56 PM
To: RTTY Reflector
Cc: Gedking at aol.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] USB Dongle Sound Cards


On Dec 11, 2012, at 2:06 PM, Gedking at aol.com wrote:

> Just what does a Dongle do???

I think he means a small external USB Sound Card.

Dongles used to mean something proprietary (but moderately inexpensive to
manufacture) that you attach to the computer's serial or parallel port,
without which a piece of (expensive) software that keys to it would not run
-- a way for developers to keep people from pirating software.  If K6STI had
shipped a dongle with RITTY, he could still be publishing ham software today
(or at least the pirates would need to reverse engineer the dongle :-). 

Common usage of "dingle" nowadays seems to be any small device that you plug
into a computer.

Some of the cheap "sound cards" out there are no larger than a small USB
memory stick.  

73
Chen, W7AY

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