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The content of the following article is taken from a document published by Max IU4JNR on the SunSDR Italy Telegram Group.
All credits go to Max IU4JNR.

 

Add a panadapter to TS 890 (or other similar rigs)

 

I purchased a Knw TS 890 transceiver which is a nice rig with a great RX, however coming from SDR, I instantly missed the benefits of SDR: 2nd RX, visualisation of the whole band signals; Spots from cluster and from skimmer on the screen; SDC's function "599".

So IOT have all SDR capabilities back and taking advantage of TS890 great reception, I attached my SDR RX, EE Colibrì nano, to the Rig. To make it simple and repeatable by other interested in this configuration I attached a simple schematic (Annex A).

Other SDR RX and software can of course be used but I haven't tried other hardware. To start the configuration we need some software tools and equipment:

  • Colibrì Nano
  • RCA to SMA (you can do by yourself)
  • EESDR3 software (to run colibrì nano)
  • Software Defined Connector (SDC) by Yuri, UT4LW
  • Radiosync included in EESDR as alternate synch method
  • VSPE from etherlogic

Assumptions:

 

  •  You know how to use EESDR
  •  You have SDC registered

Basic Config

 

1st thing is to split the TS890 virtual com used for CAT. This is done using VSPE. This allow you to make the same com port available at the same time by several software.