[Elecraft] time to order your P3, design details?

[Don Wilhelm]

LS,

It certainly will *not* be posted until after Visalia.  Eric and crew 
are getting things ready to go right now, so hold the questions until 
next week if you want valid answers from those "in the know".

Actually, I don't know if the manual is ready yet at all,  Perhaps Alan 
or Ron will comment on the progress.  The manual is created after the 
design has been scrubbed, tested and refined, so that is usually the 
last item to be developed, and often is not available in any form until 
shortly before the first units ship.  The Field Testers normally receive 
preliminary copies of the manual because a major part of any Field Test 
is to scrub the manual so it is usable by those with varying skill levels.

What I have gleaned so far is that the detection is done digitally, 
making it unlike analog panadapters we have seen so far - LP-Pan and 
SoftRock and others which use I-Q signals at baseband for display.  From 
the photos, the spectrum display is much sharper and clear than others I 
have seen (including the Flexradio display), but I will have to wait 
until Dayton to see one 'in the flesh'.

In the meantime, I just look at the photos.

73,
Don W3FPR

lstavenhagen wrote:
> I wouldn't mind a link to a manual as well. I'm still trying to determine,
> like, what the panadapter actually does....
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