[Lowfer] Excalibur

[Douglas D. Williams]

Much as I love my R75, I admit to being tempted by the newest generation of
SDRs, especially the Excalibur and Excalibur Pro receivers. Has anyone on
here had any experience with either of these? I read the review of the
Excalibur (less expensive one) in last month's QST, and it was given great
praise. The "Pro" version looks to have better frequency stability, which
is always a plus for QRSS work. Both receivers seem have good sensitivity
all the way down to 9 kHz. I'm wondering if the software that comes
packaged with these receivers is even capable of producing waterfalls slow
enough to decode QRSS signals? From what I can tell, neither receiver
utilizes the computer's sound card input.


Doug KB4OER