[Elecraft] {P3] Waterfall Resolution

David Gilbert xdavid at cis-broadband.com
Mon Aug 16 20:19:31 EDT 2010


For those who now have a P3 and also use CW Skimmer in one form or 
another, how do the waterfall displays compare on CW for resolution and 
scroll rate?  I often use CW Skimmer in "blind" mode with just the audio 
feed from my K3 to provide a running visual CW display (about 12 to 15 
seconds on my monitor) in case I miss part of a contest exchange.  It's 
clumsy and MUCH less effective in general than copying by ear, but it 
sometimes helps me avoid asking for a repeat if I miss a character.  Of 
all the various non-SDR applications I tried that are capable of 
displaying a waterfall (Spectrogram, DigiPan, MixW, MultiPSK, etc) CW 
Skimmer was heads above the rest, but the recent comments about the 
sharpness of the P3 display make me wonder if the P3 is potentially 
better in spite of the smaller screen.  With CW Skimmer, visual copy 
above roughly 35 wpm gets pretty dicey.

73,
Dave   AB7E




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