[Elecraft] using P3 and Skimmer

[Igor Kosvin]

>> Dave   AB7E:
> I publicly, privately, and unsuccessfully lobbied for well over six
> months prior to the introduction of the P3 for Elecraft to include
> buffered I/Q outputs in it so that it could be used with third party SDR
> software like CW Skimmer.
This was brought few times already and pretty much was black holed by
Elecraft. The reason is that too much need to be done in hardware and
software for pretty little value added, plus, I am sure it also would
increase P3 price dramatically. But there is a "workaround"! I discovered
Reversed Beacon Network and bunch of nice people who actually put very nice
SDRs with Skimmer online and report on DX cluster every station that did CQ
or TEST in their CW transmission. I use N1MM as my rig control software and
it has band maps where all the cluster stations appear as they are reported.
It is almost like having your own skimmer without all the hassle!
73,
Igor, N1YX