[Elecraft] K3 and CW Skimmer

[Tony Estep]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Tom <nineback at gmail.com> wrote:

> .....Since I am starting from scratch what is the best solution to allow me to
> get a K3 to work with CW Skimmer?
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Tom, I don't know what the "best" way might be, but I can tell you how
I did it. I got LP-Pan, plus an EMU 0202 external USB sound interface.
The 0202 is now obsolete, but there are other good sound cards you can
use. CW-Skimmer does not require a high sampling rate, so if your
internal sound card has stereo inputs, it will probably work, but you
will need a high sampling rate for other Panafall-display SDR
programs.

The LP-Pan website has lots of documentation for various setups, and I
learned a lot from setting up LP-Pan to run with PSDR-IF and later
with NaP3. I use NaP3 all the time and hardly ever use CW-Skimmer.


Be that as it may: to get any of these programs running with your K3,
you'll need LP-Bridge or equivalent. It's a piece of software that
re-maps your serial ports so that several programs can talk to each
other and to the K3. There are others as well: one that is
specifically set up to run with CW-Skimmer is DDutil.

After you have figured out all the above, you can get CW-Skimmer going
pretty easily. The challenge is to get it to tune both VFO A and VFO B
by mouse clicks, and to show both on the display. This requires
fiddling with the USB bridge program and the CAT setup within CWS.
If/when you get to that point, email me and I'll send you my settings.

If this sounds like a lot of complicated gibberish, then you can
understand why people like to get the nice plug--n-play P3. But I
found that, for me, in the end it was all worth it; in the pileups, my
peanut whistle needs all the help it can get.

You may also get excellent advice from W4ZV, who is a user of CWS+K3
and has posted some good tips on here.

73 & GL,
Tony KTØNY


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