[Elecraft] CW Skimmer & K3

[David Gilbert]

CW Skimmer is indeed a pretty cool piece of software, but it doesn't 
work like that.  Unless you also have some sort of SDR front end, all 
you'll be able to get with CW Skimmer is a display of the audio 
passband.  For a display of stations outside that passband you need an 
additional piece of hardware that takes the IF out from the K3 and 
processes it so that it can be handled by your sound card and CW 
Skimmer.  Even then, CW Skimmer has a limitation in "IF mode" that 
restricts what you see to something like +/- 12 KHz.

Even if you decide to go with something else, there's a lot of good 
information on the LP-Pan website.

Dave   AB7E


On 11/27/2012 10:19 PM, Gary Smith wrote:
> I'm always curious to try a new software & I thought CW skimmer looks
> interesting. I'm wondering if anyone here is using it with their K3
> and if so, what did you find was the best way to connect it to the
> K3?
>
> I have both the internal Realtek soundcard built into the PC
> motherboard and I have a E-MU USB soundcard which has XLR & 1/4"
> inputs for left & right. There's optical & S/PDIF inputs as well but
> the K3 doesn't have those outputs.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary
> KA1J
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