Pete,
I think you are mixing too many things together, and they are not
necessarily related.
Let me try to 'unravel the ball of twine' for you.
The birdies/mirror images you encountered are not the fault of LP-Pan,
but instead related to either your soundcard cables or the capability of
the Panadapter display software that you were using.
Since you now have the P3 and are apparently happy with it for the
Panadapter display, I suggest you continue to use it.
BUT, you cannot display Skimmer on the P3.
So 'what to do'? - I would suggest that you use the LP-Pan hardware.
Connect the K3 IF output to both the P and the LP-Pan (use a BNC T adapter).
Connect the LP-Pan I/Q outputs to your computer soundcard and load
Skimmer on your computer. Configure CW Skimmer to use that soundcard
and it will display whatever is within it's "hearing range". The
document at http://www.dxatlas.com/CwSkimmer/Files/Skimmerintro.pdf may
be helpful with your setup.
Note carefully, you do not have to run NaP3 or other panadapter
applications - CW Skimmer is independent of those.
If you need to run other PC applications (loggers and other rig control
applications) that each want to use the COM port connection to your K3
(in addition to CW Skimmer) - only one application can talk with the K3
at the same time. Enter LP-Bridge or Com-O-Com which create virtual
ports on your PC. IMHO LP-Bridge is a good choice for use with the K3,
but all your applications that want to talk with the K3 will talk
instead to their own LP-Bridge virtual ports - only LP-Bridge connects
directly to the K3.
Hopefully that helps.
73,
Don W3FPR
On 9/2/2016 2:01 PM, Peter W2IRT wrote:
Hello all,
With the vast majority of my friends having gone the Flex route rather than
the K3, I'm finding I'm at a rather huge disadvantage in terms of CW
operation, and that's Skimmer, which is an absolute game-changer for
everybody who's running it. I just can't figure out how to make it work
acceptably well with the K3S/P3 combination I have here.
I went the LP-PAN route and the birdies/mirror images make that device
wholly unsuitable for me, so I'm back to square one. I don't want to spend
another small fortune on interface boxes, but something better than LP-PAN
is clearly the answer. I just don't know what it is, what to do once I buy
it, or anything else.
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