[Lowfer] Re: Wolf puzzle

[Alberto di Bene]

> Darned if I didn't get bit again! The sampling rate on the lousy Compaq was
> so far off that I was looking at the wrong Loran line when I did the
> calibration. The sampling rate turns out to be 7938 Hz (instead of 8000).
> Now I get perfect copy starting with the first line.

This may happen if your sound card (or chip) driver implements the AC97 standard.
In Windows 98 (Control Panel | Multimedia | Audio | Advanced Properties | Performances), 
there is adjustment "Sample rate conversion quality"  slider that allows you 
to choose the compromise between speed and precision of the resampling. 
Usually the hardware samples at 48kHz, and the driver does a subsampling at the 
rate the program specified when opening the WMME interface.

If your PC is not severely CPU-constrained, it is better to set this control to 
the max quality.

73  Alberto  I2PHD