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KH7T
I gather that no one has found a small laptop with stereo input ( mike
or line in) that will work with no external adapter except for sound cable.

No dongles.

John KH7T
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Re: kx3 IQ to laptop

Bruce Beford-2
Have you looked around yourself yet? Though not small, my 17" HP dv6 laptop
has stereo input on-board. I am sure there are several others. Just takes
some research...

GL,
Bruce, N1RX

> I gather that no one has found a small laptop with stereo input ( mike
> or line in) that will work with no external adapter except for sound >
cable.

> No dongles.

> John KH7T



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Re: kx3 IQ to laptop

Jim Brown-10
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On 8/22/2012 3:15 PM, John Buck wrote:
> I gather that no one has found a small laptop with stereo input ( mike
> or line in) that will work with no external adapter except for sound cable.

Stereo line inputs started disappearing from laptops almost ten years ago.

How about this adapter?

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/676980-REG/DJ_Tech_MINI_2_USB_Mini_2_USB_1_8_to.html

BTW -- I just learned that the $70 Tascam US100 interface I've been
recommending has
been discontinued. The replacement appears to be the US122, which B&H is
selling for
$80.  The US122 has the additional feature of 96 kHz or 48 kHz sampling
rate, which
means that it would be useful for spectrum display, or to drive skimmer.

73, Jim K9YC
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Re: kx3 IQ to laptop

W7GJ, Lance
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Hi John,

The KX3 I/Q seems to work fine with my HP Pavilion DV6 Windows 7 64 bit laptop.  It
comes with sound card inputs for MIC and PHONES.  The built-in audio is IDT and I
have the options of selecting 2 channel input in 16 or 24 bit sampling rates, from
44100 to 192000 Hz.   For JT65A in WSJT, though, I use 24 bit sampling at 44100 Hz (a
multiple of 11025 Hz, for which JT65A was written).   It seems many of the more
recent laptop computers have such built-in sound card flexibility.   GL and VY 73, Lance

  On 8/22/2012 10:15 PM, John Buck wrote:

> I gather that no one has found a small laptop with stereo input ( mike
> or line in) that will work with no external adapter except for sound cable.
>
> No dongles.
>
> John KH7T
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Re: kx3 IQ to laptop

Greg - AB7R
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Look at the hp slate 500.  I think i read it has a stereo input.
On Aug 22, 2012 3:26 PM, "John Buck" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I gather that no one has found a small laptop with stereo input ( mike
> or line in) that will work with no external adapter except for sound cable.
>
> No dongles.
>
> John KH7T
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Re: kx3 IQ to laptop

Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy-3
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John,

My old (2000?) Toshiba Satellite 2450 has, in addition to the microphone
jack (monaural), a Line-in jack (stereo) as well as a 25 pin Parallel Port.
It weighs 3 kg.

I prefer the "feel" of its keyboard to that of my newer Toshiba Qosmio F20,
which does not have a Line-in jack.

Sorry that I missed your first question.

73,
Geoff
LX2AO


On August 23, 2012 at 12:15 AM, John Buck KH7T wrote:

>I gather that no one has found a small laptop with stereo input ( mike
> or line in) that will work with no external adapter except for sound
> cable.
>
> No dongles.
>
> John KH7T

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Re: kx3 IQ to laptop

w1az@comcast.net
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I have a ~3 year ol Samsung N120 netbook that seems to work fine.  I've
only just installed HDSDR, but it was able to decode SSB signals OK.  I
had to swap the left an right channels, but no other problems.  I was
actually a little surprised as I had never tried to use the mic input
previously.

Bernie
W1AZ

On 8/22/2012 7:22 PM, Greg wrote:

> Look at the hp slate 500.  I think i read it has a stereo input.
> On Aug 22, 2012 3:26 PM, "John Buck" <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> I gather that no one has found a small laptop with stereo input ( mike
>> or line in) that will work with no external adapter except for sound cable.
>>
>> No dongles.
>>
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Re: kx3 IQ to laptop

Joe Subich, W4TV-4

To add to the list, my older HP Pavilion DV7 with Vista Home Premium
has a line in.  It is labelled as "external mic" but is really a stereo
line in with switchable preamp.  The sound device is by IDT and the
drivers support 24 bits at 192KHz!

Unfortunately, like so many other motherboard sound devices, the noise
level is so high that external USB sound devices provide significantly
better performance with demodulated audio.  I have not even attempted
to try the built-in sound with direct I/Q audio due to the noise level.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV


> On 8/22/2012 7:22 PM, Greg wrote:
>> Look at the hp slate 500.  I think i read it has a stereo input.
>> On Aug 22, 2012 3:26 PM, "John Buck" <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>>> I gather that no one has found a small laptop with stereo input ( mike
>>> or line in) that will work with no external adapter except for sound cable.
>>>
>>> No dongles.
>>>
>>> John KH7T
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Re: kx3 IQ to laptop

Alan Hawrylyshen
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On Aug 22, 2012, at 16:15 , John Buck <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I gather that no one has found a small laptop with stereo input ( mike
> or line in) that will work with no external adapter except for sound cable.
>
> No dongles.


The 11" MacBook Air has stereo in. :-) And it is NICE and small.
You could - if slightly crazy - install Windows on it. :-) Or just run DSPradio / GNUradio.


Alan
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Re: kx3 IQ to laptop

Tony Estep
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> To add to the list...

================
Yeah, the premise that you can't get a laptop with stereo in is an
over-generalization. Gaming machines are expensive, but most if not all
have stereo in, and pretty good sound modules. I have an ASUS rip-snorter
 G60 with an i7 quad chip, designed for the hard-core game player. Its
input is labeled "Mic In" but can be set via the Windows Audio taskbar
control to stereo line in with 192K sampling.

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N8LP
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If you are using the MME driver selection or one of the other Windows drivers, try going into the Windows Mixer and set the "recording" level to 5 rather than the default 100.

73,
Larry N8LP



Joe Subich, W4TV-4 wrote
To add to the list, my older HP Pavilion DV7 with Vista Home Premium
has a line in.  It is labelled as "external mic" but is really a stereo
line in with switchable preamp.  The sound device is by IDT and the
drivers support 24 bits at 192KHz!

Unfortunately, like so many other motherboard sound devices, the noise
level is so high that external USB sound devices provide significantly
better performance with demodulated audio.  I have not even attempted
to try the built-in sound with direct I/Q audio due to the noise level.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV


> On 8/22/2012 7:22 PM, Greg wrote:
>> Look at the hp slate 500.  I think i read it has a stereo input.
>> On Aug 22, 2012 3:26 PM, "John Buck" <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>>> I gather that no one has found a small laptop with stereo input ( mike
>>> or line in) that will work with no external adapter except for sound cable.
>>>
>>> No dongles.
>>>
>>> John KH7T
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