Thanks everyone foe all the comments and suggestion. I was surprised to see the limited comments toward the SDRs like; Funcube PRO Plus, SDR Play, Softrock and others and more comments toward the LP-Pan2 than expected with a good sound card of course. After some more research I'll pick a path and get started on my upgrades.
73 Bill W4RM Panadapter Re-cap of provided comments * The P3 is turnkey, plug and play as they say costs more, plug in an use today * Softrock based panadapter has worked great here on my K3 for many years. * LPPAN for several years with no problems. I was using NaP3, but with the uncertain future of its support, I have switched over to Win4K3. Configuration for the K3 and LPPAN is a bit simpler than with NaP3. * The LP-Pan2 or good SDR route simply from a cost perspective, If you want you can upgrade the sound system relatively inexpensively to an outboard USB solution like ASUS Xonar U7 or the Steinberg UR22 for more bandwidth, 192KHz * The LP-Pan - struggled with it for year then realized my sound card was junk, $80 for U5 card after getting said card, wanted another for RTTY!! * Software setup: LP-Bridge connects to K3s serial port & provides multiple virtual serial ports NaP3 for wide-band view, connects to U5 audio & K3s via LP-Bridge CW Skimmer, connects to U5 audio & K3s via LP-Bridge Either WriteLog or N1MM+ for logging, connects to K3s via LP-Bridge Set CW Skimmer to send spots to Telenet/localhost Connect logging software spots/band map to localhost This provides point & click capability for your logging program, and the main advantage is that no spots appear on the bandmap unless you are actually hearing them. * You should check out Win4K3Suite. It is the only software panadapter that offers true QSY's regardless of mode, bandwidth shift etc. Unlike the LPBridge software, Win4K3 operates trouble free. o Here's a link to the video. o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htVlc9x0IoU o It supports the P3/SVGA with a video capture board ($$$), LPPAN with a sound card($$) and SDRPlay ($). * I use 2 k3's and a kx3 all with an lp pan, a softrock (equivalent to lp pan with a bit of work) and direct I/Q from the kx3. I use cwskimmer for cw and rtty contests. I use a 20 inch monitor in portrait orientation to show about 22 khz of spectrum. Using synergy which allows sharing the keyboard and mouse I can get to the second PC running the kx3 pretty seamlessly. o This is for so3r. I am limited to 2 cwskimmers per PC due to its limitation. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
