I'd be willing to bet HPSDR type hardware lands in a K4 or K5
now that would be very cool, just add a monitor for wide screen
It may be sooner than you think... The K3 pretty much IS an SDR, and new features are being added with every firmware release. I saw recently that they added an AM synch detector, just for us AMers! (and swls...)
My thing is, I just can't get my arms around a completely software-defined box that relies on a computer to function. Perhaps if I were a hardcore corn-tester that spent all of my operating time in front of a computer, I'd feel different, but... I'm not.
Also, if you look at the back panel of the P3 Panadapter, there are labeled cutouts for a keyboard and external display, as well as some other stuff. Future goodness abounds. Perhaps a nice K3 dream-station would be a flat-panel display on the wall as your band scope, all run from that tiny rig.
Bruce, we'll definitely set up a sched when I get things all ordered and put together. If you could, when you get an opportunity, I'd like to hear your impressions on the 250hz and 400hz 8-pole filters. I'm thinking that the 400 should be good as a general purpose CW filter, and you of course can narrow things down further with DSP, but I'd like to hear how the 200hz works in nasty, crowded conditions. And of course, is 200 too narrow for anything
but those nasty conditions? I have no trouble with the K2 filters on CW, even the narrowest one, which is 200hz. I find the K2 on the 200hz filter very comfortable to use, just not too practical to tune around with...
