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All rights reserved. Pricing and specifications subject to change without notice. LP- PAN Sound. Card Info. Updated February 1. Sound. Card Table. ![]() ![]() Generic LP- PAN Sound Card Installation. Checkout for any SDREliminating Images. System Optimization for Streaming Audio. Comparison of sound cards to USB dongles. Hz cards.. The clear winners here would. Asus Xonar U5 & U7 USB sound cards at about $6. But. least, has been plagued by USB failures at around the one year mark. It. unclear what the failure mode is (hardware, firmware or driver), but. ASUS will replace the card with no questions asked up to one year. The U5. DOES NOT support XP. You may check the latest status of . If you would still like to get in touch with us, please provide us. Sound Blaster Live! The EMU10K1 featured. They. cabling as a built in PC card. I recently tested a Behringer UMC2. HD USB sound card. It currently. costs $5. Amazon. It has a lot of. Solid construction, all metal case, excellent. I will post a Behringer setup page on the website. It is. inexpensive and has a great warranty (on paper, anyway). The signals. fall off about 1. B compared to the center once you get out to 1. Hz, but it's pretty flat up to that point varying by about an S- Unit. It has a few. spurs, though, which can be visible on quiet bands (blips that look. Currently. available and recommended.. Get the U5 from Amazon and buy the. It's cheap enough to do this and will protect you in. Hz cards.. Don't. Hz cards. Most. band segments fit within this bandwidth. They are a little cheaper than. Asus USB cards if you prefer an internal card. They typically use. PC resources as well. The best choices. Asus Xonar DSX PCIe and the M- Audio Audiophile 2. PCI. The display is. It could be handy for. Field Day operation. It can only be used with programs. Na. P3, CW Skimmer and HDSDR. Note. is a bug in Na. P3 v. 4. 0 RC1 which requires the user to reenter the sample. This is easy to do, just a bit of an. I checked some earlier versions and the bug doesn't exist in. I will do further checking to see if any of the other v. Currently. available and recommended.. Asus Xonar DSX PCIe. USD) for 9. 6 k. Hz. Sound card table: This table shows. All tests were run with an HP- 8. A signal generator. K3 with preamp ON. The K3 IF output is fed to LP- PAN w/preamp. LP- PAN 2). All measurements are made through Windows Mixer. MME driver) except the additional numbers for the 1. ASIO. driver. The dynamic range is the. Bm. Green.. In production. Yellow.. Check e. Bay. Red.. Asus. Xonar U5 USBSee. Driver. support for all modern Windows thru 1. Does. not support XP. Realtek. ALC8xx or 1. HD Audio motherboard sound system - 1. Production. Compatible. MME / WDM. No. ASIO driver. Aim. Pro. AS3. 72. N USB(Sewell. Sound. Box Pro)(SIIG. CE- S7. S1)See note 1. 2. B$6. 5. Production. Driver. support for all modern Windows OSCreative. Labs E- MU 0. 20. USB- 1. 30. / - 1. Bm. 11. 8d. BNAOut. See. E- MU 0. 20. Comments. Creative. Labs E- MU 0. 20. USBSee note 1 Comments / Links- 1. Bm. 12. 0d. B$1. 15. Out. of production Compatible. ASIO & MME drivers. Must set up Windows Mixer when using MME. Creative. Labs. E- MU 0. USBSee note 7. Infrasonic. Quartet PCISee note 9 Comments / Links.- 1. Compatible. for ASIO. Not compatible with MME. Steinberg. UR2. 2 USB - See note 6- 1. Bm. center - 1. 35d. Bm@1. 50k. Hz- 1. Bm@1. 92k. Hz. 11. Production. Excellent. W7/W8. Tascam. US- 3. USBNot recommended- 1. Driver. nightmare in my testing. Up to 9. 6 k. Hz. Asus. Xonar DSX PCIe. See Note 1. 3- 1. Bm. production. Drivers. OK with Win. 7M- Audio. Firewire Audiophile - 1. Bm. 12. 1. ofproduction. Not. tested with Win. M- Audio. Audiophile 2. PCISee note 1. 0 Comments / Links.- 1. Bm. 12. 1. production, but hard to find. Excellent. for ASIO and MME. Syba. (VIA) USB Sound Card SD- AUD2. See note 3. Specific config data for this car can. E- MU. 0. 20. 2 / 0. Note 2: Built into some newer. This card also has a spur at. B above the noise floor. On the. lower bands, this will probably disappear into the noise, but will be. Note 3: This card requires you to set a sample offset between. Na. P3, Skimmer and HDSDR provide this feature. The setting is. +1 for Na. P3 and HDSDR, - 1 for CW Skimmer (with IQ set to Q/I). For some. reason, Skimmer uses a different convention for assigning left and. Note. There is a bug in Na. P3 v. 4. 0 RC1 which. This is easy to do, just a bit of an annoyance. This appears to be. This card also. a spur at the center of the spectrum about 2. B above the noise. VIA provides many of the motherboard. The DC Block in Na. P3 takes the spike. B. On most bands, this spur will disappear into the. The display is flat and almost spur free, with dynamic range. B of the best cards. Especially for laptops, you can't do. Hz. Note. 4: This card also has a spur at. B above the noise floor. On the. lower bands, this will probably disappear into the noise, but will be. Na. P3's DC Block. B. Note 5: This card also has a spur at. B above the noise floor. On the lower bands, this will undoubtedly. Note 6: This card is extremely well. It has a great set of drivers and. ASIO and MME/WDM. It has a spur in the. B. above the noise floor. It also has smaller spurs at plus/minus 6. Hz. While most cards have. Note 7: This card is larger than the. V power supply (supplied with. Note 8: Specific config data for this card can be found here, E- MU. Note 9: Specific config data for this. Infrasonic. Quartet. Note 1. 0: Specific config data for this. M- Audio. Audiophile 2. Note 1. 1: Easy to install (be. OS. They have no center spike with. MME. They have a small one with ASIO but the DC Block in Na. P3 easily. of it. The noise floor is about 1. B higher at the edges when viewing. Hz, but this is typical. They have straightforward. Leave all the special features. OFF. See below charts for control panel and Windows Mixer settings. Note 1. 2: Very similar. Asus since it uses a similar (if not the same). CMedia chipset. The implementation isn't quite as robust, with a noise. Packaging and. documentation is not nearly as professional as the Asus. Installation. and setup is similar to Asus, but the control panel skins (colors) are. All in all, not a bad card for the price, but I. Asus for very little more $$$. Note 1. 3. Has small spike in the center (1. B with record level set to. Otherwise, very clean. Note 1. 4. This card was very easy to install and set up. The Windows. Mixer level for flatest noise floor was at around 2. This card works a lot like the. EMU- 0. 20. 4 as far as cabling goes (separate L and R cables with 1/8. Has a small center spike unless DC Block is turned on in. Na. P3. It appears to be very rugged and well built, with a professional. Dynamic range can be improved by 1. B by setting. the input pots lower, but then the noise floor increases at the edges. The card comes with a 3 year. Generic LP- PAN. Sound Card Installation & Checkout for any SDRThe following section will. Windows Mixer and MME driver. This has the advantage of allowing. SDR and other apps, like CW SKimmer. It. also makes for a consistent interface and procedure for configuring. MME has more latency than ASIO, but this is not a major. We will be using a little app called Digital Level Meter to help set. This is all done completely independent of the SDR. Installing and configuring Digital. Level Meter. In order to facilitate this you will need to download and install. Digital Level Meter. Click on this link to. Setup. Digital. Level. Meter. 17. 0. zip. Here's what the program looks like (with. S9 signal being received), and what the setup panel looks like when set. S9 signal at the edge of yellow and red. You get to the. by right clicking in any gray area of the main window. The reason for. the the 0d. B reference of - 5. S9. That provides 6. B of headroom above S9. If you prefer. to have a different amount of headroom, you can use a different. Windows Mixer to a. Here's a closeup of what the sound card input enumeration list might. You won't have nearly as many cards listed. Just pick the. one that matches your card. The level control should be. The two channels should be close to. WBIR will take over from there when running Na. P3. You. may need to tweak the balance between channels if you are using a card. To obtain an S9 signal for this setting, feed a signal generator set to. Bm, or an Elecraft XG2 set to the high output level to the rcv ant. If you don't have a suitable signal generator. S9 on the rig's S- meter. You can also generate a carrier using. Never connect an antenna analyzer to. ANT jack of a rcvr! Tune the carrier in on the. This should be done. SSB mode, even if the carrier is from an AM broadcast station. It is best. that the signal be the only strong signal on the band, or at least the. Hz of the tuned frequency. Use the rig's preamp. S9. When the sound card is calibrated for S9 as described, it should handle. S9 +6. 0d. B without clipping, and provide low noise floor. If you want a little more or less headroom. Windows Mixer levels accordingly, using the digital readouts. Digital Level Meter to determine the change in gain., or change the. B Reference level in Digital Level Meter to a different value. Note: When the sound card is adjusted according to this procedure, S9. S- Meter and panadapter legend of most SDRs. This is because Na. P3 does. not offer a way to adjust the legend or S- Meter reading independent of. This is done in order to optimize the working. WBIR system. If you like this little program, consider a small donation to. It's just a. handy program I found searching the Internet, and I'd like to help the. Using Windows Mixer. The mixer panel on the left is accessed by right clicking on. Windows. screen. You will be given several choices after clicking. Choose the. one labeled Recoeding Devices. Scroll up and down until you get to the. Don't be alarmed by some of the. Sometimes they will be reported as MIc when it's Line, etc. In. general, if both Mic and Line are reported by a sound card, choose. Line. But if only Mic is reported, that's OK, it will only affect the. Click on the selection, and. Properties button to open up the screen on the right. Right. clicking on the little speaker icon to the right of the level value.
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