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 -- Stefan v. Baltz dl1...@contesting.com http://www.dl1iao.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