[Elecraft] P3, what lies ahead?

[David Gilbert]

Don't hold your breath waiting for that.  I lobbied long and hard for 
that capability (buffered IQ outputs) from the very beginning ... 
starting back when Elecraft first announced they would be introducing 
the P3.   They obviously didn't include it, though, and in spite of 
several  public and private queries from me regarding the reason for 
that omission I never got a single answer.  The lack of IQ outputs is 
the single biggest reason why I will not buy a P3 (the other reason is 
that there is no capability to display the 2nd receiver even if I 
hardware hack the K3 to bring out the 2nd IF).   Anyone who wants to run 
CW Skimmer or any other third party SDR software will have to buy 
another piece of hardware to do it, when the P3 could have easily 
provided that capability.

73,
Dave   AB7E



On 2/23/2011 6:03 PM, Igor Kosvin wrote:
> I just assembled P3 two days ago. One of the things I would like to see is
> the IQ output of the P3. The signals are definitely generated in P3 and I
> would guess it is just the matter of buffer and connector. With these
> signals and decent sound card one can play with PSDR software (open source
> BTW) or number of other similar programs and even run skimmer for the RBN.
> How cool is that?
> 73,
> Igor, N1YX
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bill
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 5:13 PM
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> Subject: [Elecraft] P3, what lies ahead?
>
>
> Has anyone figured out the possible purpose of those unused holes in the P3
> backpanel?
>
> One of them labeled "sensor"  ???
>
> 73, K3UJ
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