I use a P3. Another thing I don't have to use a PC for :-). 73, John N1JM
py5eg wrote > Hi Stefan > Thanks for sharing this interesting information with us > Best 73 > Oms PY5EG > > -----Mensagem original----- > De: > [email protected] > [mailto: > [email protected] > ] Em nome de Stefan von Baltz, DL1IAO > Enviada em: quinta-feira, 26 de julho de 2018 05:53 > Para: > [email protected] > Assunto: [Elecraft] Survey and summary: Elecraft K3/K3S panadapter > solutions > > 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 > > > -- > Stefan v. Baltz > DL1IAO@ > http://www.dl1iao.com > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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] > ______________________________________________________________ > 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] -- Sent from: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/ ______________________________________________________________ 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]
