SDR anan-10

I'm planning a trip to Sao Tome and was hoping to operate for the 3-4 days from that Island nation that's part of the Cameron Line.  I recently purchased a Apache-Labs ANAN-10.

My 1st impression was; " wow !".

Now my biggest complaint over  this radio, we have no distributors in the USA, even tho the USA leads the market with the numbers of ham radio operators. I ened up  purchasing the  radio from these guys;

Waters & Stanton Ltd
Spa House
22 Main Road
Hockley, Essex
SS5 4QS. UK

http://www.apache-labs.co.uk/

They are quick to  reply to your emails , but slow on providing shipping status or order updates. From the time I made purchased, and got the custom clearing document from  fedex, it was maybe  6 days.

For SDR interface, I'm using Power SDR and windows7. Be advise the  link on apache-lab website for PowerSDR never loaded for me. So what I did was to find the builds  that have "W5WC" and tried the latest version  and build #21 from the SVN source.

 http://svn.tapr.org/repos_sdr_hpsdr/trunk/W5WC/PowerSDR_Installers/Archive/

I'm also running  virtual-audio-cables with FLDigi. Most likely I will play with  PSK31 , RTTY or Olivia with this QRP rig.

The firmware for my radio seems to be the most updated version and I had zero interoperability between  PowerSDR or cuSDR32/64 and my new rig.

I did have to play with RX gain to get clean traces on FLDigi and it looks like the noise-blanker  filter can severely retard the signal for digital modes. The panadapter is great for finding transmission above the floor and you can quickly pan and zoom into a frequency of interest.

Stay tune, more will come from kf3lix