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Need help on CW Skimmer install
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Wayne W5GIE
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After a few days of struggling, I'm no closer to getting CW Skimmer to work with SDR Bridge or SliceMaster on my desktop. With SliceMaster the actions start then there is a comment "Connecting to telnet port Slice A port 7301" followed by "Lost connection with CW Skimmer Slice A.
Any suggestions on finding help? Many of the online sources are somewhat dated and often refer to a different version of the software.
Thanks
Wayne W5GIE
Any suggestions on finding help? Many of the online sources are somewhat dated and often refer to a different version of the software.
Thanks
Wayne W5GIE
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When having issues with CW Skimmer, always bring up Windows Task Manager and look for hung skimmer.exe processes. More often than not, if I'm having issues it's due to a hung skimmer process.
Make sure your firewall is OFF when testing to rule it out as a source of headaches (and add an Allow rule as needed).
Personally, I prefer SDR Bridge which works fairly reliably.
Below are screenshots of my working config with SDR-Bridge:
Be sure that DAX is turned on for the slice you are monitoring and ensure in the DAX Control Panel to enable DAX IQ at the proper sampling rate to match; e.g., 48 KHz, 96 Khz.
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Wayne,
Most of us use SDR Bridge by W2RF. A great program that makes setting up CW Skimmer easy.
http://www.qrv.com/sdrbridge.html
73,
Mack
W4AX
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Here's updated screenshots (with SDR-Bridge, DAX and Skimmer all actually running (the skimmer configs change when launched via SDR-Bridge)
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Wow guys, I appreciate the thorough responses. Rick, my settings are essentially the same as your (for example I have a different sound card than yours) On SDR Bridge, I made sure that the port 7310 was the same (it was something different). The best I can do with SDR Bridge is to get a set of bars closely together and growing to the left. With Slice Master, the same setting were used, but I always get "Lost Slice A". No simultaneous runs of CWSk and tried with firewall on/off.
Burned out now...try again tomorrow.
Oh, I do have CW Skimmer running with Slicemaster on a laptop, but I won't be using it on the laptop.
Thanks
Wayne W5GIE
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Wayne,
If you are still interested in getting Slice Master to configure and launch CW Skimmer for you, send an email to the address shown when Slice Master starts up. Please attach a copy of your Slice Master config folder. Just navigate to
C:Users<your user name>AppDataLocalK1DBO
then right-click on slice-master and select 'Send toCompressed (zipped) folder'. This will create a zip file that you can then attach to your next email reply. The logs from the zip should give me a pretty good idea of what's going on.
--Don
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Great! I'll give it a run.
Thanks
Wayne W5GIE0
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