From: Tony Estep <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Skimmer and the K3S
=============== As all the others have pointed out, the problem here has nothing to do with LP-Pan. Using NaP3, for example, you can have a birdie-free display of 96Khz on either side, if your sound card is up to it and you set up the software properly. Having tried both setups extensively, I can assure you that you will get far superior performance from the combo of LP-Pan and NaP3 than you will get from a Flex. It also is perfectly possible if you know what you're doing to run NaP3 and Skimmer simultaneously. Tony KT0NY [pjd] Except I don't really care about seeing a waterfall or having yet *another* piece of software (NaP3) open unless it's absolutely required. What I want is a box in the background to do the decoding of ~100 kHz worth of signals at the bottom of the band my K3S is tuned to, feed the output of that box into Skimmer and have the callsigns displayed on the N1MM+ bandmap during contests. As I indicated earlier, I'm behind a mountain to Europe and roughly half the RBN spots that get sent to my station aren't copyable or aren't there, etc. A live local Skimmer will tell me what is coming to my antenna and will save me time when I'm S&Ping, going only to known, copied callsigns. For finding the winning callsigns in a DXpedition pileup, just looking at the Skimmer interface ought to be able to do that for me, no? I don't see what NaP3 brings to the table in that regard. My previous setup for a DXpedition pileup was to put the pileup on VFO-A, the DX on SUB (locked), and see all the callers on Skimmer's interface. Find the guy sending 5NN TU and pounce. The only problem was that everything from about 4 to 6 kHz above the DX frequency gets obscured by the birdies/mirror images on the skimmer display. And since most big DXpeditions split up, I would lose a ton of callers in that murky no-man's land. The skimmer turned out to be no help at all on some of the massive DXpeditions earlier this spring as a result. The exception was Heard Island, who were split down, rather than up. That worked like a champ on a few bands where the pileup was insane. I'm quite intrigued by the SDRplay box, and if anybody's using one I'd be most grateful if they could contact me directly. If that can give me the result I'm looking for (decoding the bottom of the currently tuned band), then that's my next purchase. Thanks again to everyone for your help. 73, Peter, W2IRT ______________________________________________________________ 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]
