[Elecraft] A K3 Pileup Wrinkle with CW Skimmer

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

CW Skimmer is a great tool for cracking the K1N pileups because it 
decodes the calls of folks calling as well as who just sent 599, and you 
can click on the relevant decoder dot to move instantly to that 
frequency.  I'm using it with an LP-Pan in what Skimmer calls the 
Softrock-IF mode.

One rub, though, is that the pileups are so wide that it often is not 
possible to go split, listen on VFO A, and transmit on the second VFO,. 
because Skimmer tracks VFOA and the action is too far above K1N's 
frequency to display on my monitor.  My K3 has the separate subRX, 
happily, so I can invert things - listen to K1N on VFO B, while tuning 
up the band on VFO A looking for the last successful caller. Works 
amazingly well.

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73, Pete N4ZR
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