[Elecraft] P3 - Waterfall Marker?

[Vic Rosenthal 4X6GP/K2VCO]

I can usually get close enough to hear the station by eye without a 
marker, either on the P3 or on a 24" VGA.

73,
Vic, 4X6GP/K2VCO
Rehovot, Israel
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/

On 4 Nov 2015 20:14, Steve Ellington wrote:
> All that's needed is a dot, pointer...something to act as a guide so we can
> line up the waterfall with the spectrum's marker. It doesn't need to be a
> translucent line.
> The dot could be at the bottom of the waterfall since that's where the
> desired signal is headed anyway.
> Great minds at Elecraft can do this!
> Steve N4LQ
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Paul Saffren <pauls at elecraft.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> It's pretty hard to do what you want with the P3 hardware.  The P3's
>> hardware is nowhere close to what you can get with a standalone PC, but it
>> does alright for a standalone panadapter and offers some features not found
>> on traditional SDR systems.   There's really no way to draw a translucent
>> line down the waterfall display and still have the P3 run at a reasonable
>> speed.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> paul
>>
>> Paul Saffren - N6HZ
>> Project Manager
>> Elecraft Inc. 831-763-4211 x122www.elecraft.com
>>
>> On 11/4/2015 9:32 AM, Steve Ellington wrote:
>>
>> Paul et al....
>> "Freeze" locks up everything including the marker so how does that help?
>>
>> When searching for signals we might see one on the waterfall that is half
>> way down the screen. We want to mark, click or do something to get us
>> exactly on frequency so we can either wait for the signal to return or try
>> calling QRZ however there doesn't seem to be a way to get on frequency
>> other than a rough guess.
>>
>> At first when you mentioned "freeze" I was excited but now I find that
>> using freeze makes the situation even worse since nothing responds. I'm
>> just looking at a locked up system!
>>
>> The marker needs to be independent of the displayed material....Like a
>> mouse on virtually any other SDR software.
>> Is that something Elecraft can do or is it impossible with this hardware
>> configuration?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Steve N4LQ