[TenTec] How to Choose an SDR RX for the Pan-Adapter?

[Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP]

Eric,

I only use laptops in my shack.  It's a very tiny shack.

BTW, I have built over 50 computers in my life (no exaggerating).
I have accounts with several component vendors in DL.

Sorry, but I just can't get interested in Linux.
An OEM copy of Win7 is quite reasonable.

Remember what I said about this computer:  Currently it only runs my logging
software (WIN-TEST) and firmware updates to my Eagle.  Neither of these run
on Linux.

73 - Rick, DJ0IP
(Nr. Frankfurt am Main)


-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of R. Eric
Sluder via TenTec
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 12:45 AM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Cc: <n4py3 at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] How to Choose an SDR RX for the Pan-Adapter?

Rick:

Unless you are banned from doing so in Germany, you can source commuter
parts on ePay and build a machine with little expense.  For the OS go to
Linux MINT or Ubuntu to keep cost down.

I know you have used Linux in the past, but the new versions of the two I
mentioned sure make using Linux easy-peezy!

73

-Eric
W9WLW

Sent from an iPhone

> On Dec 27, 2014, at 4:24 PM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP <Rick at DJ0IP.de> wrote:
> 
> I was afraid you would say that.
> 
> Currently my computer is doing just fine for what I want it to do.
> 
> Experience has shown that when I get interested in some new 
> technology, I do what I have to do to deploy it, then play with it for a
week or a month.
> And then the interest fades away.
> 
> What I have done consistently for 40 years is work CW contests... and 
> a bit of rag chewing.
> I keep coming back to this.
> So I don't want to spend a lot of money on a faster computer which 
> will later be used to run AALog once or twice per week, plus 2 or 3 
> contests per year.
> 
> But these are all my personal problems.
> I appreciate you helping me understand the technology and what it 
> takes to deploy it properly.
> 
> As I said I will start with the computer I have.
> Once I get it running, if need be I can move my office PC to the shack 
> for a while.
> Jan/Feb are dead months for us, business wise.
> 
> 73 - Rick, DJ0IP
> (Nr. Frankfurt am Main)
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Carl 
> Moreschi
> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 6:24 PM
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] How to Choose an SDR RX for the Pan-Adapter?
> 
> This computer is not a good candidate to run with a panadapter.  I 
> would say you need at least dual core and 2 ghz and 2 gig of memory.
> 
> Carl Moreschi N4PY
> 58 Hogwood Rd
> Louisburg, NC 27549
> www.n4py.com
> 
>> On 12/27/2014 8:42 AM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP wrote:
>> DELL Latitude D-620
>> Single Core, 1.8 GHz
>> 2 GB Mem.
>> WinXP SP3 (all updates)
>> Onboard Graphics
>> 
>> WIN-TEST contest logging software, generating the CW.
>> Nothing else running.
>> 
>> 73 - Rick, DJ0IP
>> (Nr. Frankfurt am Main)
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Carl 
>> Moreschi
>> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 1:58 PM
>> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
>> Subject: Re: [TenTec] How to Choose an SDR RX for the Pan-Adapter?
>> 
>> It would definitely work with winkey but you are right it might not 
>> work if N1MM is forming the characters.  Is your computer dual core?
>> 
>> Carl Moreschi N4PY
>> 58 Hogwood Rd
>> Louisburg, NC 27549
>> www.n4py.com
>> 
>>> On 12/27/2014 7:47 AM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP wrote:
>>> I have a hunch with a pan-adapter displayed, my computer would not 
>>> be able to send proper Morse code.
>>> Perhaps it would work with a WinKey, but it wouldn't have a chance 
>>> without one.
>>> 
>>> One more reason to turn it off in a CW contest and just use the
Band-Map.
>>> 
>>> 73 - Rick, DJ0IP
>>> (Nr. Frankfurt am Main)
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of 
>>> Carl Moreschi
>>> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 1:41 PM
>>> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
>>> Subject: Re: [TenTec] How to Choose an SDR RX for the Pan-Adapter?
>>> 
>>> That's no where near as CPU intensive as displaying a panadapter.
>>> 
>>> Carl Moreschi N4PY
>>> 58 Hogwood Rd
>>> Louisburg, NC 27549
>>> www.n4py.com
>>> 
>>>> On 12/27/2014 4:49 AM, Barry N1EU wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Carl 
>>>>> Moreschi<n4py3 at earthlink.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>    The panadapter program is the only high CPU user in what you 
>>>>> have described.
>>>> The contest logging program is a high cpu user if it's connected to 
>>>> the hyperactive spotting network during a major dx contest.
>>>> 
>>>> Barry N1EU
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