Thinking out-loud... Too bad the SRLV6.2 kits are discontinued. They were $10 each, so five bands costs $50, one receiver per band. You would need a pre-amp (Z10000 from WB6DHW?) and multi-way power divider too (TV splitter?, 6-way is -8 or -9 dB power). Now if you have multiple sound card inputs you can run multiple instances of Skimmer at the same time. If Skimmer can't run in multiple instances, run virtual machines with something like VMWare or Parallels.
You are still rock bound though with the SRLV6.2. If you wanted to run multiple SRL+XV8.3's in parallel you can't parallel the Si570's on one I2C bus, they all have the same fixed bus address (I2C seven bit address 0x55). Unfortunate. Hmmm... --- In [email protected], "Alan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pete Smith" > >>I am asking for Your suggestions which type of Softrock receiver kit > >>I should couple with CWskimmer to cover all HF bands, > > > > You can do the SoftRock Lite +Xtall to cover them all - the only problem > > is > > that it uses plug-in bandpass filters and a DIP switch for frequency > > selection, so you would have to do considerable home-brewing to have a > > convenient band-switched unit. > > Pete, your suggestion sounds as it would need as much effort as to use one > v8.3! > The frequencies could be selected by a panel mounted 16 way binary switch. > Switching the bandpass filters has been discussed recently. My feeling is > that this may be done with almost any suitable (4 way 5pole?) switch as at > HF lead lengths are not going to be critical. > > I think as v8.3 is developed more frequency options will be available and > possibly someone will come up with a neat switch arrangement. > > 73 Alan G4ZFQ >
