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96k DAX-IQ with CW Skimmer

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K1UO Larry
K1UO Larry Member ✭✭✭
edited June 2020 in SmartSDR for Windows
Has anyone on the Alpha Team for Ver1.1 tried the DAX -IQ 96k connection with CW Skimmer?

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  • Tim - W4TME
    Tim - W4TME Administrator, FlexRadio Employee admin
    edited March 2017
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    Yes. Also at 192k too.
  • Ken - NM9P
    Ken - NM9P Member ✭✭✭
    edited June 2020
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    Oh great... Now I need to spend $75 for CW Skimmer....Don't you guys know that every embellishment you make costs me more money! [grin] This hobby could get to be expensive!
  • K1UO Larry
    K1UO Larry Member ✭✭✭
    edited December 2017
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    Awesome.. Thanks Tim..Looking forward to getting that working again. C'Mon Ken... get with the "program" Hi Hi with regards and anticipation...
  • Tim - W4TME
    Tim - W4TME Administrator, FlexRadio Employee admin
    edited March 2017
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    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.
  • Greg
    Greg Member ✭✭
    edited January 2014
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    With the 6700's capabilities the tie in should also be concentrated to skimmer server where it can scan multiple bands at the same time as with the QS1R (7 bands at 192 kHz each). I know that is down the road and for now looking forward to 1.1 skimmer capability. 73 Greg
  • Sergey R5AU
    Sergey R5AU Member ✭✭
    edited April 2017
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    Hi Team, sounds good, some thing planned abt Telnet connection SSDR - Skimmer(for auto LO setup) ?
  • Greg
    Greg Member ✭✭
    edited January 2014
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    It sounds like this is using the regular CW skimmer program. So we should be able to utilize the telnet function in that program.
  • Sergey R5AU
    Sergey R5AU Member ✭✭
    edited April 2017
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    Greg, i am not sure as it was not announced(Skimmer integration) and some DLL implementations are necessary. In this case LO can be setup manually only, just for review signals into the Skimmer, otherwise in any "click" on Skimmer-monitor required to change LO again: "...to make the operation of SmartSDR with CWSkimmer seamless in a future version of CWSkimmer. "
  • AB0Z
    AB0Z Member
    edited February 2014
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    Tim - a while back there was a comment / request for feature "Slice A Should be Centered After Frequency Change via CAT".  This is still a really good idea anyway for contesting, etc. using loggers.

    Would this feature not also get over this particular problem?  Clicking on Skimmer would change the frequency via CAT -- and if the panadapter were automatically re-centered by SSDR then the LO frequency would be just right...

    Just wondering!

    David, AB0Z

  • Al_NN4ZZ
    Al_NN4ZZ Member ✭✭✭
    edited March 2017
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    David,
    Here is a link to one of the idea postings for an option to automatically center the active slice in the panadapter.    It is in reference to the CW Skimmer issue but would also provide a nice tuning option as you noted. 

    https://community.flexradio.com/flexradio/topics/idea_for_cwskimmer_integration_with_smartsdr

    Regards, Al / NN4ZZ  
    al (at) nn4zz (dot) com

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