[Elecraft] KX3 I/Q output for pandapter

[k3ndm at comcast.net]

Buck, 
I have my KX3 running using the NaP3 software with the same sound card you have. The operating system is Windows 7. The one thing I found out quickly was that I needed the beta driver from Creative Labs. The rest of it was a little more than a little fiddling with the set up. But, it works rather nicely. I can point and click and the the radio tune to that signal. It's great!! I also have PowerSDR-IQ running with the radio, but it only operates as a panadapter; PowerSDR-IQ doesn't control the radio like NaP3. 

There are just two issues I've run into. The first, I have not been able to get VAC to work with NaP3. Secondly, I can hear the refresh click in the outputted audio. This doesn't happen in any of the other SDR software I've tried. 

Some suggestions: 
1. Start with the sample rate set to 48 KHz. 
2. Install Omnirig - available for free on the web 
3. Make your input and out put card set to the EMU-0202 and use the audio jack of the soundcard to connect to a powered stereo speaker. 
4. Make sure you are really plugged into the EMU-0202 as you think you need. 


Best of luck and enjoy. 

73, 
Barry 
K3NDM 



----- Original Message -----
From: "Buck k4ia" <k4ia at aol.com> 
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 10:40:09 PM 
Subject: [Elecraft] KX3 I/Q output for pandapter 

I am fooling around with an EM0202 external soundcard and NaP3 which 
works just fine with an LpPan pandapter providing the I/Q from my K3 but 
I am not having much luck with the KX3, I have turned on the RX I/Q in 
the menu and run the I/Q output from the KX3 to the soundcard. I had to 
crank the gain way up but the signals are not there - just images, a 
blip in the center frequency and mirrored spurs on either side. . 

Before I go crazy trying to get this to work, is it fully implemented at 
this time and should it work? If it is, I will go about trouble 
shooting my cables and connectors. 

-- 
Buck 
k4ia 
K3 # 101 KX3 #715 

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