I second (or third or umpteenth) the motion. Once one becomes accustomed to the panadapter--or, in my case, the panafall--everything else seems so...yesterday.
Even other implementations are seldom anywhere near as good. The K3 is a very fine radio but its little add-on panadapter is a sad joke compared to PSDR. My WinRadio Excalibur (I was a DX SWL long before I got my license) has a nice spectrum display but its tuning implementation pales in comparison to the Flex, making it a constant minor annoyance. My SWL buddies will say, "but when you're trying to hear a broadcast station, you know exactly where to listen so what's the advantage of the panadapter?" To which I reply with a modest, shy (yeah, right) smile, "Try it." I fire up my FT-950 once in a while, sort of like starting the emergency generator once a month just so ya knows it works, and going back to tuning by ear, even on that nice radio, takes an awful lot of the fun out of the bands. 73 Bill On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Peter G. Viscarola <[email protected]>wrote: > >I can't imagine ever operating a radio again without a panadapter! > > and > > >once you go Flex its hard to go back to the old knob > > +1. > > True story: > > I sat down in front of a Yaesu FT DX 5000MP at my local HRO just a few days > ago. There was an Italian station calling CQ NA slightly off frequency. > Without really thinking, I tried to tune him in... but I found myself > looking at the little (SM-500) station monitor perched atop the radio and > trying to tune his signal by sight! > > I quite literally had to stop myself and think "OK, this is a radio without > a panadapter... I need to tune this guy by EAR not by EYE." It was > disconcerting. Really! > > I know it's nuts, but that's how reliant I've become on (and found I've > become of) the panadapter. Even when searching by ear for a weak station, > when I find a signal, I find myself zooming the panadapter in and trying to > peak him visually... shifting the bandpass around noise and trying to > exactly capture the signal. > > Peter > K1PGV > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > [email protected] > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flexradio.com/ > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
