96k DAX-IQ with CW Skimmer

I do need to set some expectations. CWSkimmer is not currently designed to accommodate "two degrees of tuning freedom" where a slice and a panadapter can be tuned independently of one another. IQ or wide band data is generated at the panadapter level, not at the slice resource level, so the panadapter's center frequency is the IQ data center frequency. To get frequency accurate wide band (> 24 kHz) decodes in CWSkimmer, you have to set the CWSkimmer LO frequency to the panadapter center frequency. Currently the only way to do this easily is by using the telnet interface in CWSkimmer. This configuration precludes the use of CAT which is bound to slices, not panadapters, hence the reference to "two degrees of tuning freedom". So you have to tune the slice manually. We will document how to do this for the SmartSDR v1.1 release We have been in touch with Alex (the author of CWSkimmer) about creating a CWSkimmer interface specifically for SmartSDR that accommodates the "two degrees of tuning freedom" challenge and he has agreed to work with our engineering group to make the operation of SmartSDR with CWSkimmer seamless in a future version of CWSkimmer.