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Yes, the IQ stream will be available. On a K4D or K4HD it may be possible to have two IQ streams from different bands. We're still characterizing the available bandwidth.
> On May 30, 2019, at 2:09 AM, Edward R Cole <
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> Wayne, etal:
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> I am doing a similar thing with my K3 to view as panadapter. I use the LP-Pan on 8.215 IF output of my K3 and that goes to the A/D in my Delta44 soundcard to provide a digital stream to sw in my computer. The 1st IF of the K3 is ahead of the roofing filters so fairly wideband. The LP-Pan is in fact a SDR which outputs IQ baseband to the soundcard. So with the K3 it is a single-conversion SDR.
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> LP-Pan passes nearly 400-KHz of RF bandwidth which wider than most soundcards. The Delta44 is 96-KHz wide soundcard.
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> Using a special eme sw all signals inside approx 90-KHz wide band are simultaneously decoded and displayed showing virtually all the calling stations. You could also say it displays as a 90-KHz panadapter.
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> This sw has the ability to take two IQ streams so one can use the 1st IF of the subRx in the K3 simultaneously.
> With two antennas orthogonally polarized (Hpol and Vpol) the sw can actually solve for the real polarization angle and maximize the signal.
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> So how does this relate to the K4? I'm guessing the A/D processing the panadpater display might also provide digital IQ output to a computer which could perform similar wideband decoding of digital signals. I guess the question would be if the IQ stream is available for export.
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> 73, Ed - KL7UW
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> The K4 is always doing direct sampling for panadapter purposes.
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> If the HDR module is turned off or is not present, the K4 also does direct sampling for demodulation.
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> If the HDR module is turned on, two additional ADCs are used, right at the outputs of the crystal filters (oversimplifying a bit). The original two ADCs are still being used for the panadapter.
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> Wayne
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> 73, Ed - KL7UW
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