[Elecraft] Elecraft P3 panadapter at the Orlando Hamcation

[Jeff KB2M]

  I'm running SDR-IF 192k wide on a $399 3 year old 2.20 gigahertz Pentium
Dual Non hyper-threaded processor with 2 gig of memory under WIN7 32 bit. I
have a $229 24 inch monitor, and a used Infrasonic Quartet soundcard I
picked up for $90.The SDR-IF software uses about 25% of the screens real
estate. I just tested SDR-IF's CPU usage. It is under 17% average. I just
watched a video I selected from MSN, it uses on average 44% CPU. Along with
LP-Bridge running I can use several programs simultaneously with the K3 When
in contest mode I run SDR-IF, LP-Bridge, Logic8, and contest specific
logging software. I can control the K3 with either piece of software via the
virtual com ports in LP-Bridge, via a mouse click, or turn of a knob. While
this is up and running I read email, view videos, chat with my GF's on
Yahoo, MSN, etc without a burp, and without any geek type system tweaking,
plug and play. This to me is the ultimate shack setup made possible with the
K3's IF out. I'm one of the people Larry mentions that switched over from
Flex. I owned a Flex 1000 for several years. Part of my preference to the
SDR-IF software is I've been running it for 4 or 5 years.
 Do I need a P3? No, and I don't see myself lusting for one. Where I think
Elecraft is going with this is to a QRO rig. This K4 if you will, will be
200 watts output, have a bandscope (the one we see today) built in, room for
actual band select buttons, more room between knobs, more knobs, less menu
items, a nice set of dual speakers, etc. A 70cm module and the ability to
run full duplex on the satellites would be nice. I would sell my 9000D and
buy one of them. Ok enough, the sun is shining, I'm obviously snowed in
here, and need to get out of the house :>) 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Julian, G4ILO
Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 12:12 PM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft P3 panadapter at the Orlando Hamcation
>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. 

73 Jeff kb2m