[Elecraft] K3 and Perseus SDR panadapter/receiver

[David Cutter]

Dave

I imagine you examined several panadapters before opting for the fairly 
expensive Perseus.  What were the persuading features that drew you to your 
choice?

David
G3UNA


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave G4AON" <elecraft at astromag.co.uk>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 2:52 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] K3 and Perseus SDR panadapter/receiver


> This week I bought a Perseus receiver and have it hooked up to my K3 via 
> "com0com" and Ham Radio Deluxe to act as a panoramic display for the K3.
>
> I am not using the insensitive IF out of the K3, instead I am using a home 
> made ferrite hybrid splitter on the KXV3 RX RF out/in of the K3, one port 
> goes to the Perseus, the other to the KXV3 RF input (not the main antenna 
> socket). The loss through the splitter is 3 dB.
>
> In order to run the above combination, the freeware program com0com 
> (http://com0com.sourceforge.net/) is run to create virtual com ports 10 
> and 11 -instructions for doing this at the Sourceforge web site. Power up 
> the K3 and the Perseus (including it's perseus.exe software). The the 
> latest version of HRD should be run twice, one application controlling the 
> K3, the other the Perseus. In HRD click the "Synch" button and link the 
> two radios together. I use the Perseus as "Master" (sorry politically 
> correct people, but that's what it's called). It works great with full 
> dual receive and "click and go", the K3 tunes within a hairs breadth of 
> the Perseus which has the benefit of a 1ppm TCXO too. You can set the K3 
> as master and have the Perseus follow, but I mostly use the "click and go" 
> where the Perseus drives the K3.
>
> The noise reduction of the Perseus is currently better, in my opinion, 
> than that in the K3 when dealing with wide band white "frying" noise and 
> the Perseus has synchronous AM - needless to say it works very well on 
> those 80m AM stations and of course broadcast stations.
>
> The Perseus is more expensive by a long way than the simple Softrock 
> receivers and LP-PAN, but it is darn good.
>
> 73 Dave, G4AON
> K3/100 #80
>
>
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