[Elecraft] LP-PAN 2 and P3

[Art Hejduk]

Jorge,

I went the cheapest route, and it works quite well.  I use a softrock lite
II which cost $21.  I needed a stereo sound card for my laptop, so I
ordered a USB sound card for around $14 from Amazon.  I later changed to a
Xonar U5 sound card, which cost $60 after a $10 rebate.  It is a better
sound card, but honestly, the $14 sound card was more than sufficient for
my needs.  The Xonar U5 gives twice the viewed spectrum compared with the
$14 sound card, but when I operate CW, which is most of the time, I don't
view more than about 60kHz anyway.  Adding an enclosure for a couple of
dollars from Radio Shack makes the whole package cost under $100 (using the
more expensive $60 sound card).  I use NaP3 software with this setup..

By the way, my first experience with a panadapter was with HDSDR and a
Peaberry V2 transceiver.  Since it is an SDR, I tried connecting the
Peaberry V2 to my K3 IF output, and it worked great as a panadapter using
NaP3,  I then decided to buy the softrock lite II to free up the Peaberry
V2 since I didn't want to dedicate it to being just an SDR receiver in this
application.

A great part of the fun for me is getting a project working.  This is
certainly not as easy as buying a P3 and plugging it in, but it is much
cheaper, and not all that difficult.

73,
Art  WB8ENE


On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Jorge Diez - CX6VM <cx6vm.jorge at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello
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> I am looking for information about LP-PAN 2 and the P3 SVGA
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> Not understand at all about them, are the same?
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> May I use LP-PAN 2 without P3 or there´s any benefit using both LP-PAN 2
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> Or is better to use just the P3 SVGA
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> Thanks,
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> Jorge
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> CX6VM/CW5W
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