[Skimmertalk] Perseus and Skimmer- revisit?

[Clive Whelan]

Please excuse me if this has been discussed recently, but I've been away 
from the list a while.

A year or so back I made the not inconsiderable investment in the 
Perseus with the broad intention of dedicating it to Skimmer work. Of 
course I found that there were overriding technical gotchas concerning 
the sample rate which the Skimmer author did not and ( at that time ) 
would not support. I know there were workarounds ( was it from 
Bob/N6TV??) to address this issue, but tbh I considered this too much 
hassle at the time.

The Perseus is an amazing rx in absolute terms  of that there is no 
doubt, but the inherent latency sadly makes it unusable  for real-time 
contest work, and therefore its only real value to me is as a Skimmer 
rx. I recently saw that the K3LR team had made an investment in multiple 
Perseus units, so I guess something must have changed for the positive?

I wonder therefore if their is a concise answer to the question of 
whether Perseus is a viable tool for use with Skimmer, or should I just 
write it off to experience?

As an aside, are any of the US origin SDRs now approved for import into 
the EU?

Thanks for the bandwidth.

73


Clive
GW3NJW