I have several radios with dual receive, and I have several radios with a spectrum scope, and several radios that have both.
My vote is the spectrum scope. When you are saving your pennies for a second radio, save some more and buy a second radio. There is nothing like SO2R George, W6GF Sent from my iPad > On Mar 9, 2015, at 2:25 PM, Jim Brown <j...@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote: > >> On Mon,3/9/2015 9:24 AM, Don Putnick via Elecraft wrote: >> Should my next purchase be a subreceiver or a panadapter, and why? > > Buy the P3 first. Both are useful. My primary use for the 2nd RX is diversity > reception, which requires two antennas. It's most useful on the lowest bands, > especially 160 and 80, but also on 40. I also use it to listen on my TX > frequency when running split in a pileup. That way, I know if there's a QSO > there. I can also time my calls with another station in the same pileup on > that frequency. > > The P3 gives you a nice overview of the pileup, it allows you to monitor a > "dead" band for activity (like 10M, 6M), it helps you identify RFI, it can > even show you the bandwidth of dirty signals. In the E30FB pileup on 15CW > this morning, K7RR was clicking almost 2 kHz wide, and the P3 clearly showed > it. > > On 6M, I set the P3 for 200 kHz (max width), to display 50.08 MHz to 50.280 > MHz. This lets me monitor for CW, SSB, and JT65/JT9 activity. I've picked up > a lot of rare grids in short openings that way. Last fall there was an > opening to CX and PY I made four Qs in three grids! > > 73, Jim K9YC > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to georgefrit...@yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
