[Elecraft] Elecraft P3 panadapter at the Orlando Hamcation

[Julian, G4ILO]

Jeff kb2m wrote:
> 
>  Don't forget that the LP Pan allows you to run the SDR-IF software suite.
> To me it's like having another radio(with band stacking registers!) to
> compare my K3 to. When I have my K3 on, I do all the tuning around with
> SDF-IF. My K3's knobs are hardly ever used....
> 
> 
If you want an SDR then I'm sure that's the way to go. But I'm equally sure
there are a lot of people who don't want the huge ugly screen hogging
resource hogging PowerSDR application just to show them a graphical display
of band activity. Many of those folks probably have the second receiver
already. If a standalone panadaptor is what you want, LP-Pan isn't it.

I'm wondering what extra functionality Elecraft could be building in to the
P3. I see it can do a waterfall display so I'm wondering whether it has any
features to allow digimode operation without a computer, such as Icom has in
its latest rigs. Perhaps it could use some of the screen to display more of
the decoded text than you can see on the K3 display? Perhaps you can plug a
keyboard in to directly enter text? The K3 itself already has support for
that functionality, and the P3 can access it through the serial port.

Just a thought.

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