[Elecraft] SDR-IF and I/Q questions

[Don Wilhelm]

Richard,

I believe you are mixing two things (given the last paragraph of your post).
The SDR software application has no connection with the serial or USB 
connection to the transceiver - the I/Q outputs are fed to the soundcard 
and those alone can provide a panadapter type display with no serial 
connection at all.

The "rub" comes in when the users also want the frequency accurately 
displayed on the panadapter display and want to "click-to-QSY" or 
'click-to-transmit" or do any other type of rig control from the 
computer keyboard.  That is where the serial port connection comes into 
play.

The authors of "SDR" applications fall prey to a variety of requests for 
rig control based on the display - the only one that seems to have not 
fallen prey to those requests is Rocky which does not have all those 
"bells and whistles".

So IMHO, if you want a KISS panadapter display, use Rocky, but if you 
want more extended rig control, get involved with the crowd that is 
continually asking the authors for additional functions or changes to 
the functions and make your own requests to satisfy your particular 
wants and needs.  There is a "new kid on the block" on the LP-Pan 
reflector which targets the K3 functions (the author has a K3 and 
develops for the functions he particularly desires -- it should work 
nicely with the KX3 as well) - that newest application is NaP3, and you 
can get in on the beta. comments too - perhaps some of your desires will 
be accepted.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 11/8/2011 3:36 PM, Richard Fjeld wrote:
> Basically, I'm disappointed with the software. I don't mind installing and setting some options for my type of equipment, but from there-on I expect it to function conveniently and nearly as well as a P3.
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> The question for today is; have any Elecraft users achieved that goal with a computerized pan-adapter? And if so, with what software?  And if so, do you use a USB to Serial, or straight Serial?
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