And for that, production line technology is needed. From time to time, Tony also makes available pre-assembled versions of the kit, built to the band of your choice, assembled and tested, for about $50.īased on the success of the first set of Softrocks, next step was to build up more. Price is about $20 and includes all the parts to build the receiver on any band 160m-20m. The single band Softrock version is still available and it's current version is called the Softrock Lite II (Combined) Receiver Kit. The entire arrangement was mounted on some aluminum rails. To feed these 4 receivers a small MC MMIC amp drove a MC splitter. Based on the success of that, another pair were added for 40/15m. Initially I put 2 of the small Softrock SR2 into a single metal box covering 30/20m. The project started out with more modest goals - putting a couple of skimmers in action to see how they really did work. Introduction to Software Defined Radios, published in the KC DX Club newsletter 2009. This page covers the results of that work. But after seeing the monster professional multi-band skimmer that K3LR had put up, I was joking with a friend KØRU that perhaps it may be able to do something similar, at a fraction of the cost, with the Softrock modules Tony Parks KB9YIG sells. At that time I had no idea of what SDR or Skimmer would mean. K4TD sent me a summary of the multi-band skimmer he has there at his contest station and I got very interested in SDR technology. Tracking all bands, all the time, on a budget 10-band CW Skimmer Softrock-based SDR Array
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