[Skimmertalk] Problems with CW Skimmer , SDR Bridge, and SmartSDR

[Andrew O'Brien]

Thanks, Bob...Pete.  I have thinks working fairly well after reading some
more and understanding things better. SDR Bridge allows you to "tune" the
range and get closer to a band range that is desired.

Andy K3UK


On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Bob Wilson, N6TV <n6tv at arrl.net> wrote:

> You have to tell each copy of CW Skimmer to use a separate telnet port.
> They cannot both use telnet port 7300 if they are running on the same
> machine at the same time.  Change the TELNET port for one copy to 7301.
>  Tell SDRBridge to connect to 7301 for one slice, 7300 for the other.
>
> I guess you are also referring to this post by W1RE
> <
> https://community.flexradio.com/flexradio/topics/new_to_cw_skimmer_sdr_bridge_and_flex_6700_dax_having_issues_with_skimmer_not_decoding?topic-reply-list%5Bsettings%5D%5Bfilter_by%5D=all
> >
> ?
>
> 73,
> Bob, N6TV
>
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Bob Wilson, N6TV <n6tv at arrl.net> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Andrew O'Brien <k3ukandy at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> You will see one CW Skimmer episode where things seem OK and one where
> CW
> >> Skimmer displays a frequency around 6.9 mHz despite Smart SDR being set
> >> for
> >> the 40M band.
> >>
> >
> > I see nothing wrong.  You've specified an LO (center) frequency of 7.013,
> > with 96 kHz sampling, so 6.989 falls well within the passband you are
> > sampling.  CW Skimmer is tuned independently of your SDR, since it's
> > operating in "IF" mode.  Press Page Up in CW Skimmer to see the rest of
> > 40m.  You should probably change your LO frequency to around 7.040
> instead
> > of 7.013.
> >
> > CW Skimmer doesn't keep the SDR "tune" frequency in sync with the
> > transceiver's frequency via CAT / OmniRig unless you use SoftRock-IF or 3
> > kHz radio.
> >
> > 73,
> > Bob, N6TV
> >
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