[Skimmertalk] Perseus and Skimmer- revisit?

[K1TTT]

7 bands at once, including 6m if you want with the qs1r.


David Robbins K1TTT
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Smith [mailto:n4zr at contesting.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 18:00
> To: Clive Whelan
> Cc: skimmertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [Skimmertalk] Perseus and Skimmer- revisit?
> 
> To the best of my knowledge, K3LR plans to use the software work-arounds
> described by N6TV.  They seem to be quite straightforward, and do the
> trick.
> 
> One option you might explore is the QS1R.  I don't know about the import
> status, but a number of people in Europe appear to have them.  With
> Skimmer Server you can skim 6 bands simultaneously.
> 
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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> 
> On 9/24/2009 7:44 AM, Clive Whelan wrote:
> > 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
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