[Skimmertalk] Brief experiment with Skimmer and 40 Meter SoftRock at Field Day

[kd4d at comcast.net]

Good day, everyone:

I hooked a skimmer up to a 40 meter dipole at our Field Day just to play with it.  The
$12 SoftRock kit was, not surprisingly, completely overwhelmed by the RF environment
and mostly decoded every possible variant of W3AO at almost every frequency in the 
band.  And, we were only running 100 watts.

If this is going to be useful in a large multi-op scenario, a better receiver is going
to be required.  Has anyone had experience with some of the other SDR's in a
multi-op environment, especially one running high power.

I expect even the SoftRock to work much better monitoring a band where there
isn't a local tranmitter active!

73,

Mark, KD4D