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

[Peter W2IRT]

I have and LP-PAN2 and could never get it to work reliably with both U5 and U7
outboard sound cards on my system. Others have had great success with it, but I
haven't. Birdies and other junk in the spectrum. It would kinda-sorta work but
that's not good enough. I've held out for now until I can find a better
panadapter solution. I have a P3 and it's OK--it's gotten me through more than a
few DXpedition pileups looking for replying station--but I'm after a better way
to accomplish this.

The ideal solution would be if Elecraft ever released a module with I/Q out, and
I'm curious why they haven't done so, in fact. I would much rather have my K3s
than any Flex, but with that said, the features provided by SDR are undeniably
powerful. I might grab and SDRPlay and give it a try when it comes time to
reconfigure my station.

 - pjd

-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of Joe Subich, W4TV
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2018 8:29 PM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Survey and summary: Elecraft K3/K3S panadapter solutions




On 2018-07-26 7:07 PM, Roger D Johnson wrote:
> It's also fine with a reliable sound card!
> 
> 73, Roger
> 

Most of the sound cards that support 192 KHz sampling (~200KHz display
with NaP3) have either lost driver support for Windows 10 or have
reported hardware reliability issues.  That is a primary reason so
many have abandoned LP-Pan/SoftRock with sound card style systems in
favor of the RTL dongles, AirSpy and/or SDRplay based systems.

It is a shame that NaP3 support is so lacking for the majority of
the better hardware these days.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV

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