[TenTec] New Radios in the Future

[Barry N1EU]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 8:29 PM, HamOperator <jrichards at k8jhr.com> wrote:

>    But I don't consider a panadapter all that valuable in a contest
> setting, anyway.
>

I disagree.  It's fundamentally valuable if you do any significant amount
of running and want to find a clear run frequency fast.  And when you ARE
running, you can see how close your neighbors are.

When you're spinning the dial in S&P, you see where the signals are, even
the ones that are momentarily absent because they're between cq's and
listening.  So you know to pause a sec on their frequency and listen.

The mega benefit of the panadapter is in the future, once some genius
creates a bandmap overlay so all the spotted callsigns appear adjacent to
their waveform and you can instantly see the unspotted dx.

Yada, yada

73, Barry N1EU