[hpsdr] Using a sound card for audio in/out with PowerSDR or similar

Paul Fletcher paul_fletcher at me.com
Mon Nov 5 02:43:39 PST 2012


VAC does work for this purpose but as you rightly point out you then lose 
VAC functionality for digimodes. Heterodyne (Mac software) does provide this 
functionality so it is doable I just wondered if someone else had already 
done it.

Paul M1PAF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Marvin" <jm-hpsdr at themarvins.org>
To: <hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Using a sound card for audio in/out with PowerSDR or 
similar


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>  I just started looking at what would be required to do this with 
> PowerSDR.  I believe you can do it with the VAC capability in PowerSDR 
> (specifying a real sound card rather than virtual audio cables).  However, 
> I haven't tried it yet, so I may be wrong.  Also, since you would be using 
> the VAC capability for this purpose,  you would then lose it for its 
> normal purpose, i.e. digital modes. Also, VAC only works for the first 
> receiver, so you would not be able to use this for listening to a second 
> receiver using the 2 receiver version of PowerSDR.
>
> Regards,
>
> John
> AC0ZG
>
> On 11/5/2012 1:01 AM, Paul Fletcher wrote:
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>> Does anyone know if it's possible to use the PC sound card for mic and rx 
>> audio with HPSDR? being able to do this would mean I can completely 
>> separate the PC from the radio hardware. If the answer is yes - can you 
>> point me to the right place?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Paul M1PAF
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