[Elecraft] SDRPlay as panadapter

[Jim Brown]

ND0B (North Dakota Bill) is two grids away from the FFMA award for 
working all grids in the lower 48 states on 6M. This is a quote from his 
website:

"More recently I have been experimenting with RTL dongles and SDR 
Console on receive for 6m.   The sensitivity and noise immunity of this 
combination is incredible and in many cases it out performs my Flex 
6700.   My recent contact with W6JTI flat would not have been possible 
without this combination."

W6JTI and K6EU had hiked 3 miles up a mountain trail (2,000 ft climb) 
with a KX3/KXPA100 and a 3-el Yagi to activate CM79, so that's the 
station ND0B was trying to work, the band wasn't very open, and Frank 
only works CW. :)  Frank and Tom were up there two days, and it took 
early morning "just barely there" conditions to make the QSO. And, of 
course, both guys are superb CW operators.

73, Jim K9YC

On 9/30/2017 9:08 AM, Ian White wrote:
> Hi Dave
>
> I connect the SDRplay through a 3dB splitter at the 28MHz RX output of
> the transverter. A hybrid splitter is used to maximize the isolation
> between the SDR and the K3's receiver.
>
> This method is used in preference to the internal 8.2MHz IF output of
> the K3 because the transverter output port can deliver a higher
> signal/noise ratio to the input of the SDR, which improves its ability
> to display extremely weak VHF/UHF signals.