Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-10-01 Thread Edward R Cole
- KL7UW From: "Ian White" <gm3...@ifwtech.co.uk> To: "'Dave Fugleberg'" <dave.w...@gmail.com>, <Elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter Message-ID: <00cc01d33a06$63e5dda0$2bb198e0$@co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain;

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-10-01 Thread Michael Walker
t; 73 Jeff kb2m > > -Original Message- > From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-bounces@ > mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Clay Autery > Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2017 9:10 PM > To: j...@audiosystemsgroup.com; Reflector Elecraft > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] SDRPla

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-10-01 Thread jeff griffin
;elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter On 9/30/2017 8:51 AM, Barry Baines wrote: > What size SVGA monitors do you use? I presume there is a tradeoff between > real estate being used by the monitors versus preferred viewing size for > seeing what the P3

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-09-30 Thread Clay Autery
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter On 9/30/2017 8:51 AM, Barry Baines wrote: > What size SVGA monitors do you use? I presume there is a tradeoff between > real estate being used by the monitors versus preferred viewing size for > seeing what the P3 can provide. Exactl

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-09-30 Thread Jim Brown
On 9/30/2017 8:51 AM, Barry Baines wrote: What size SVGA monitors do you use? I presume there is a tradeoff between real estate being used by the monitors versus preferred viewing size for seeing what the P3 can provide. Exactly right. There's also the issue of finding monitors that will run

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-09-30 Thread Jim Brown
ND0B (North Dakota Bill) is two grids away from the FFMA award for working all grids in the lower 48 states on 6M. This is a quote from his website: "More recently I have been experimenting with RTL dongles and SDR Console on receive for 6m.   The sensitivity and noise immunity of this

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-09-30 Thread Ian White
K9YC wrote: >more than a year ago, [I] acquired three low cost >SDRs for use as spectrum analyzers. A pair of P3/SVGAs live at my >operating position, with monitors on bracketed arms just above eye level. "Why do you have six monitors?" someone asked the author Terry Pratchett. His reply:

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-09-30 Thread Ian White
Fugleberg >Sent: 30 September 2017 14:15 >To: Ian White; Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >Subject: Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter > >You raise some great points, Ian. The choice of which type of panadapter to >use, as well as how to configure and integrate it, depends gr

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-09-30 Thread Barry Baines
Jim: What size SVGA monitors do you use? I presume there is a tradeoff between real estate being used by the monitors versus preferred viewing size for seeing what the P3 can provide. Thanks, Barry Baines, WD4ASW > On Sep 30, 2017, at 11:44 AM, Jim Brown wrote:

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-09-30 Thread Jim Brown
On 9/30/2017 2:11 AM, Ian White wrote: For measurement purposes I love the SDR-IQ and SpectraVue; but operating and contesting are a different application. Excellent analysis, Ian. I agree completely. FWIW, Elecraft is very much in touch with the contesting world -- K6XX works there, and

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-09-30 Thread Wes Stewart
My friend Ian makes some good points. Just to clarify though, the SDR-IQ/SpectraVue combination does provide spectrum, waterfall and combinations of the two viewing. Personally, I run the combo view.  I guess thirty years of sitting in front of real spectrum analyzers makes me like to see a

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-09-30 Thread Bob McGraw K4TAX
I'm using the SDR Play {RSP 1} and HDSDR very successfully for my needs.  However, I do not use the IF output on either of my radios.  I use the SDR Play receiver by  picking the signal off of the RX ANT  IN and OUT on my K3S and I pick the signal from the Band Pass filter of my other two

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-09-30 Thread Dave Fugleberg
You raise some great points, Ian. The choice of which type of panadapter to use, as well as how to configure and integrate it, depends greatly on what your purpose is for using one in the first place. We certainly have an abundance of riches in the choices available today! You've inspired me to

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-09-30 Thread Ian White
N7WS wrote: > >"SpectraVue software is the only SDR software I've ever liked. It interfaces >with the K3 seamlessly. Every other program I've tried has been installed >and >quickly uninstalled. Sometimes more than once, usually having me ask >myself, >"Self, what were you thinking?" before

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-09-29 Thread Dave Fugleberg
If what you want is a good panadapter for the K3, the P3 is hard to beat, in my opinion. I started my panadapter journey on the K3 the cheapest way possible - a softrock receiver on the IF, fed to the internal sound card on my PC. I was never able to tame the large 'spike' at the IF frequency. I

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-09-28 Thread Wes Stewart
I guess I have to repeat myself: "SpectraVue software is the only SDR software I've ever liked.  It interfaces with the K3 seamlessly.   Every other program I've tried has been installed and quickly uninstalled.  Sometimes more than once, usually having me ask myself, "Self, what were you

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-09-27 Thread Jim Brown
- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Wes Stewart Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:21 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter I bought an RSP2pro last week.  I just got off the phone with HRO

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-09-27 Thread Wes Stewart
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter I bought an RSP2pro last week. I just got off the phone with HRO arranging its return. I too use an SDR-IQ as a panadapter and as a decent lab spectrum analyzer if you are careful and know what you're doing. Actually, I

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-09-27 Thread Mark E. Musick
Hi Wes, Why are you returning the RSP2pro? Mark, WB9CIF -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Wes Stewart Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:21 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-09-27 Thread Wes Stewart
I bought an RSP2pro last week.  I just got off the phone with HRO arranging its return. I too use an SDR-IQ as a panadapter and as a decent lab spectrum analyzer if you are careful and know what you're doing.  Actually, I have two K3s so I have two SDR-IQs.  SpectraVue software is the only

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-09-26 Thread Edward R Cole
Don't have the SDRPlay, but do have a SDR-IQ which operates using Spectravue quite nicely. Noise floor below 550-KHz is -130 dBm and with antenna noise varies -115 to -95 dBm in the 600m band. I typically use it on the 28-MHz IF of my VHF and higher transverters. I bought two LP-Pan1 (with

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-09-26 Thread Udo Langenohl - DK5YA
So do I. Sold my LPPans recently and go with my RSP2. Larry Gauthier (K8UT): I actually find myself preferring the SDRplay. -larry (K8UT) __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help:

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-09-26 Thread Larry Gauthier (K8UT)
Dick, I have both the SDRplay RSP1 and the LP-Pan. I have operated the SDRplay using the K3S Rx Ant output and its IF output. Early comparisons between SRDplay and LP-Pan were invalid due to a plastic case and cheap cables used on the SDRplay - resulting in terrible noise floor and birdies on

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-09-26 Thread Tom
To: Richard Siegmund Lindzen Cc: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter I used a SDRPlay RSP1 for awhile after using an LP-PAN2 with a Win4K3Suite. It didn't take me long to switch back to the LP-PAN2. The RSP1 was horrible in crowded band conditions like a contest

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-09-26 Thread Richard Siegmund Lindzen
, 2017 2:04 PM To: m.matthew.geo...@gmail.com; Richard Siegmund Lindzen Cc: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter Max, I use the rsp2. It works ok for what I do. No, it doesn't compare to my 24 bit. 192 kHz sound card. But, there is a big difference between a 12

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-09-26 Thread BARRY LAZAR
-09-26 1:39:25 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter I used a SDRPlay RSP1 for awhile after using an LP-PAN2 with a Win4K3Suite. It didn't take me long to switch back to the LP-PAN2. The RSP1 was horrible in crowded band conditions like a contest or a DX pileup... the display

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-09-26 Thread Harald Fritzsche
Hello Richard, All, i am using SDRPlay with may K3 at IF-Out multiple times for a self-skimmer-setup during contests. Check my qrz-page https://qrz.com/db/DD0VS. SDR software used is SDR Console V3, since this has a skimmer interface. There is a second option, with KXV3 option, i looped in a

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-09-26 Thread M. George
I used a SDRPlay RSP1 for awhile after using an LP-PAN2 with a Win4K3Suite. It didn't take me long to switch back to the LP-PAN2. The RSP1 was horrible in crowded band conditions like a contest or a DX pileup... the display and noise floor would pump up and down really bad and was very annoying.

Re: [Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

2017-09-26 Thread Bob McGraw K4TAX
I use it very successfully with my K3S and HDSDR software. Makes for a nice 2nd receiver, although it takes a separate computer to support the operation. The P3 is a stand alone display. I don't have a P3 thus can't say with regard to performance. Bob, K4TAX Sent from my iPhone > On Sep