[Elecraft] K3S / P3 thoughts and notes.

[ae4pb at carolinaheli.com]

I don't have the P3 yet and really didn't understand what people were saying
about how helps operations. Just to try and see if I really wanted it I
purchased a $20 USB SDR and did the hardware mod for direct sampling. Using
HDSDR with it allows me to have a poor version of the P3 (lots of
noise/birds due to the poor shielding and design of the SDR). I have to say
that I can now see the benefits of having a visual display of the bandpass.
It's more like shooting fish in a barrel because you can see the signals and
click on them to immediately tune. One note with the SDR method is I can
often hear signals but not see them. I'm confident the P3 can probably see
everything you can hear (someone else will have to comment). 

 

Anyway, my post is only to suggest that anyone who isn't sure on getting the
P3 strongly consider it and/or play around with proof of concept type
technologies to see if you like it. 

 

Based on my experiments I'm sold on the concept and now just need to save up
the cash for the hardware. 

 

Antennas are next on my list so the P3 gets bumped down a bit for now. 

 

73 ..

 

 

Jerry Moore

CDXA, INDEXA, SKCC, Fists

AE4PB, K3S - S.N. 010324

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