[Elecraft] RES: Survey and summary: Elecraft K3/K3S panadapter solutions

[py5eg]

Hi Stefan
Thanks for sharing this interesting information with us
Best 73
Oms PY5EG

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De: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] Em nome de Stefan von Baltz, DL1IAO
Enviada em: quinta-feira, 26 de julho de 2018 05:53
Para: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Assunto: [Elecraft] Survey and summary: Elecraft K3/K3S panadapter solutions

My teammate and I decided that we wanted to have a panadapter with mouse support and point & click functionality for WRTC 2018. Unfortunately we did not find the time to build and test alternative solutions to the P3 and consequently decided against an Elecraft K3S as our radio. However, the K3/K3S still was a very popular radio at WRTC so I did a survey on the WRTC-teams mailing list and asked about their panadapter solutions.

My questions were:
1) Did you use the P3 as a panadapter?
2) If not the P3
 a) which hardware solution did you choose?
    - e.g. which SDR/splitter etc?
 b) which software solution and how did you integrate the waterfall display?
    - e.g. on a separate PC/monitor or on the same PC/monitor as your logging software?
    - if on the same PC how did you handle the program focus?
 c) would you use the P3 if Elecraft added mouse support for point & click?


Here is the summary:

I got 20 replies in total.

6 used the Elecraft P3 panadapter.

14 went with another solution and chose the following hardware:
   Airspy HF+: 8
   Funcube Pro USB: 2
   SDRplay RSP1A: 1
   Winradio: 1
   Perseus: 1
   other SDR: 1

I got less detailed answers regarding the use of splitters:
   commercial splitter: 1
   passive T-connector: 1

   no details given: 12

The software used was
   HDSDR: 4
   N1MM spectrum display: 3
   Writelog spectrum display: 2
   SDR-console: 2
   SDR-radio.com: 1

   no details given: 2

I received very little information on how to integrate the panadapter. 2 were using HDSDR with the logging PC/monitor and used an autohotkey macro to get the focus back to the logging software.


11 (5 of P3 group, 6 of second group) would use the P3’s mouse functionality if Elecraft added it.

The remaining 8 of the second group indicated that their solution, while more elaborate, is smaller, lighter and less expensive than the P3 and they would therefore stick to it.


The replies also indicated that the native P3 users were using scope functionality predominantly in a passive way, e.g. watching general band activity and signal strengths. Those aiming to use the scope more actively were looking for solutions providing a fixed waterfall display with mouse support and point & click functionality. This allowed them to more effectively do search & pounce, interleave QSOs or click a new CQ frequency.


73,

Stefan DL1IAO, SA3CWW/SM9A


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Stefan v. Baltz
DL1IAO at contesting.com
http://www.dl1iao.com

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