{"id":392,"date":"2019-11-30T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/11\/30\/mr-carlsons-analog-panadaptor-like-a-digital-waterfall-but-fun\/"},"modified":"2019-11-30T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T01:26:00","slug":"mr-carlsons-analog-panadaptor-like-a-digital-waterfall-but-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/11\/30\/mr-carlsons-analog-panadaptor-like-a-digital-waterfall-but-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Carlson&#8217;s Analog Panadaptor &#8212; &#8220;Like a digital waterfall, but fun!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e6v6elT26_o\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <b>We&#8217;ve been talking about Panadaptors &#8212; especially about NON-DIGITAL Panadaptors. Kind of like waterfalls without the digital water. A while back I rigged up a very crude non-SDR panadaptor using my Feeltech sign generator, my Rigol &#8216;scope and a DITX40. Here it is: <\/b><br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2019\/05\/diy-waterfall-quick-and-easy-panadaptor.html\"><b>https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2019\/05\/diy-waterfall-quick-and-easy-panadaptor.html<\/b><\/a><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>In the above video Mr. Carlson looks at the old PCA-2T-200 Panadaptor. The first five minutes give a really good overview of how the device operates. At around the 5 minute mark Mr. Carlson notes that modern digital receivers have SDR based waterfall displays, but noted (correctly!) that &#8220;that&#8217;s no fun!&#8221; Thank you Mr. Carlson. <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been talking about Panadaptors &#8212; especially about NON-DIGITAL Panadaptors. Kind of like waterfalls without the digital water. A while back I rigged up a very crude non-SDR panadaptor using my Feeltech sign generator, my Rigol &#8216;scope and a DITX40. Here it is: https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2019\/05\/diy-waterfall-quick-and-easy-panadaptor.html In the above video Mr. Carlson looks at the old PCA-2T-200 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/11\/30\/mr-carlsons-analog-panadaptor-like-a-digital-waterfall-but-fun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mr. Carlson&#8217;s Analog Panadaptor &#8212; &#8220;Like a digital waterfall, but fun!&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sdr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}