[Elecraft] CommCat review (K2 logger & control)

Ken Lotts [email protected]
Sun Apr 13 00:33:01 2003


This morning I downloaded "CommCat" because it's banner flashed up at me on
QRZ and when I went to their site, www.commcat.com, it looked like an
interesting Elecraft friendly control & logging program.

Probably the coolest magic in it is a twist inside the Spectrum Analyzer ..
If you click on a "blip", it will *zero* beat the K2 to the blip..  Kinda
fun with CW!

It uses DX cluster integration and will automatically tune in all the DX
"spots" as they are reported.  It also integrates with the "DX Atlas"
(www.dxatlas.com) to show the path in beat with the info from the DX
cluster.

I am not much of a DX hound and I have not compared these types of programs
before, but the 30 day trial version of the program impressed me enough to
lay out the bucks on the first day.

Ken aa7jc