Extensive web searches will yield many notes stating that CW Skimmer used with a Flex 3000 or Flex 5000 will produce only 24 Khz of CW bandwidth that CW Skimmer can decode. However there is a way to expand that to 48 Khz but that means using a "fixed LO" that many have found frustrating when they want to zoom up and down a band. Today I found a work around , of sorts, using DX Lab Suite.
Feed the CW Skimmer spots in to DX Lab's Spotcollector and have DXLab's Commander paired with PowerSDR via DDutil. Configure CW Skimmer to SOFROCK not SOFROCK-IF In CW Skimmer, choose manually enter in a LO that is mid-point of the band area you wish to skim. When the 48 Khz wide CW Skimmer spot of interest is passed to Spotcollector, click on the spot in Spotcollector and the Flex 3000 moves to the desired signal. The traditional way of using CW Skimmer with a Flex is to have the Flex follow the CW Skimmer signal you click on. This does not work when using plain SOFTROCK setting in CW Skimmer. DX Lab is providing a method that allows you to move the Flex to the QRG of the desired signal spotted by CW Skimmer and Spotcollector, while enjoying decoding of 48 Khz as opposed to a measly 24. Andy K3UK _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software innovation and other technical SDR topics.
