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

[John Simmons]

I did a video with my K3 and the panadapter solution that I use. See: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KusmkeLdfwE

-John NI0K

> Peter W2IRT <mailto:lists at w2irt.net>
> Thursday, July 26, 2018 8:00 PM
> 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
>
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> On Behalf Of Joe Subich, W4TV
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> solutions
>
>
>
>
> 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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> Joe Subich, W4TV <mailto:lists at subich.com>
> Thursday, July 26, 2018 7:28 PM
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>
>
>
>
> 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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> Roger D Johnson <mailto:n1rj at roadrunner.com>
> Thursday, July 26, 2018 6:07 PM
> It's also fine with a reliable sound card!
>
> 73, Roger
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> Joe Subich, W4TV <mailto:lists at subich.com>
> Thursday, July 26, 2018 5:33 PM
>
> The issue is that NaP3 does not support Airspy, SDRplay or RTS dongle
> based SDRs.  It's fine if one has LP-Pan with an unreliable sound card
> or Fun Cube Dongle but otherwise it's rather crippled and not readily
> supported.
>
> 73,
>
>    ... Joe, W4TV
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> ab2tc <mailto:ab2tc at arrl.net>
> Thursday, July 26, 2018 4:28 PM
> Hi,
>
> None of you buddies have heard of LP-PAN and NaP3? No RF splitter 
> needed and
> NaP3 takes care of all the frequency offsets caused by the bandpass 
> shifting
> on the K3(S). The latest versions of NaP3 even have cluster spots 
> displayed.
>
> AB2TC Knut
>
>
> William Liporace - WC2L wrote
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