[Lf] LF: re Sound cards]

[Andre' Kesteloot]

Alan Melia wrote:

> Hi All, well I was a bit bemused by the troubles with Spectrogram and PCI
> sound cards. I must be lucky. I have had a lot of trouble with emulator
> cards and on-board sound cards. I run Spectrogram on a K6-200 (quite
> pedestrian these days) under Win95 using a PCI 64 (genuine Creative Labs
> version NOT a look-a-like, this may be important) and use 5.5k samples all
> the time, and mostly use 16k FFT points. I have recently been using it for
> long term monitoring around the WA2XTF frequency, and I have NEVER had it
> crash on me over 100s of hours of use in the last 9 months. I have not tried
> to use it under DOS. The only probem saving files has occured when there is
> not enough disk space available. I keep forgetting to empty the bin!! The
> only time Gram has crashed was when I asked it save a wav. file and it ran
> out of disk space after about 45 minutes (I'm mean and using old small
> disks!)
>
> FFTDSP4 objects if I do not run it from a clean boot (it is running on a
> machine which also has Win3.1 on it) it just doesn't see the sound card.
>
>  I have aa copy Hamview that was written by the two Italian stations (I2PHD
> and IK2CZL) and runs under DOS also needs a genuine Creative Labs sound card
> as it writes direct to the card. This crashes regularly on my Cyrix MII -300
> with SB-16. Its disadvantage is that it has too wide a spectrum (only 2Hz
> resolution) Maybe Spectran is an upgrade??  I havent found that yet but I
> see a site in the messages.
>
> Cheers de Alan G3NYK
> Alan.Melia at btinternet.com