[Skimmertalk] CWSkimmer and Skimmer Server setup with RedPitaya

[Bob Wilson, N6TV]

On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Jorge Diez - CX6VM <cx6vm.jorge at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Other question, if i want to run CWSkimmer, which radio may i select on
> Settings Radio Tab?
>

CW Skimmer is hard coded to work with the specific SDRs listed.  It does
not support the Red Pitaya directly.  But SkimSrv and RTTYSkimServ support
the Red Pitaya OK via the Hermes interface DLL or CWSL_Tee.

It looks like SM7SJR has configured his ANAN-200D (a Hermes SDR) to work
with CW Skimmer configured as Radio=SDR-IQ, but it is very complex to set
up, requiring Virtual Audio Cable and other software.  See:

http://www.sm7sjr.se/?page_id=983

In theory, the same could be done for the Red Pitaya, but as K1TTT said,
you can't run CW Skimmer and CW Skimmer Server against the same SDR at the
same time without causing problems (*), so I don't think you would gain
much value.  Use HDSDR instead.

73,
Bob, N6TV

(*) Selecting SDR-IQ allows CW Skimmer to change the LO frequency as you
tune around, which would really mess up  SkimSrv which requires a fixed LO
frequency on each band.