[Skimmertalk] SoftRock v9.0 and CW Skimmer

Pete Smith n4zr at contesting.com
Thu Jan 1 07:39:24 EST 2009


At 10:01 PM 12/31/2008, Wes Cosand wrote:
>Please excuse a dumb question from a raw beginner but from Pete's
>comments on the SoftRock reflector I assume there is no way to run CW
>Skimmer using the SoftRock v9.0 Si570 hardware.  I can make it work by
>running Rocky on a second computer to control the local oscillator but
>that is a lousy solution.
>
>Building the SoftRock was great fun!

That is correct, but I'm hopeful that Alex will add the code from Rocky, 
and write code for the bandpass filter switching, so that SoftRock V9 will 
be fully supported by Skimmer.  It has the potential to become *the* 
entry-level Skimmer hardware solution.

73, Pete N4ZR




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