My teammate and I decided that we wanted to have a panadapter with mouse
support and point & click functionality for WRTC 2018. Unfortunately we did not
find the time to build and test alternative solutions to the P3 and
consequently decided against an Elecraft K3S as our radio. However, the K3/K3S
still was a very popular radio at WRTC so I did a survey on the WRTC-teams
mailing list and asked about their panadapter solutions.
My questions were:
1) Did you use the P3 as a panadapter?
2) If not the P3
a) which hardware solution did you choose?
- e.g. which SDR/splitter etc?
b) which software solution and how did you integrate the waterfall display?
- e.g. on a separate PC/monitor or on the same PC/monitor as your logging
software?
- if on the same PC how did you handle the program focus?
c) would you use the P3 if Elecraft added mouse support for point & click?
Here is the summary:
I got 20 replies in total.
6 used the Elecraft P3 panadapter.
14 went with another solution and chose the following hardware:
Airspy HF+: 8
Funcube Pro USB: 2
SDRplay RSP1A: 1
Winradio: 1
Perseus: 1
other SDR: 1
I got less detailed answers regarding the use of splitters:
commercial splitter: 1
passive T-connector: 1
no details given: 12
The software used was
HDSDR: 4
N1MM spectrum display: 3
Writelog spectrum display: 2
SDR-console: 2
SDR-radio.com: 1
no details given: 2
I received very little information on how to integrate the panadapter. 2 were
using HDSDR with the logging PC/monitor and used an autohotkey macro to get the
focus back to the logging software.
11 (5 of P3 group, 6 of second group) would use the P3’s mouse functionality if
Elecraft added it.
The remaining 8 of the second group indicated that their solution, while more
elaborate, is smaller, lighter and less expensive than the P3 and they would
therefore stick to it.
The replies also indicated that the native P3 users were using scope
functionality predominantly in a passive way, e.g. watching general band
activity and signal strengths. Those aiming to use the scope more actively were
looking for solutions providing a fixed waterfall display with mouse support
and point & click functionality. This allowed them to more effectively do
search & pounce, interleave QSOs or click a new CQ frequency.
73,
Stefan DL1IAO, SA3CWW/SM9A
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Stefan v. Baltz
[email protected]
http://www.dl1iao.com
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