{"id":31571,"date":"2018-04-10T07:37:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T11:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=31571"},"modified":"2018-04-10T07:37:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T11:37:41","slug":"st-bandon-3b7a-an-all-sdr-dxpedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/st-bandon-3b7a-an-all-sdr-dxpedition\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Bandon (3B7A): An all-SDR DXpedition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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3B7A Antenna Layout (Source: SunSDR)<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Mike Hansgen (K8RAT), for passing along this press release from SunSDR<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The 3B7A Saint Brandon\u00a0team is now active from Saint Brandon and we are exited! This is the first major DXpedition that will be using only SDR transcievers in its setup.[…]<\/span><\/p>\n

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SunSDR2 Pro<\/p><\/div>\n

Using past experience from their successful FT4TA expedition to Tromelin island and FT4JA Juan de Nova island Expedition, the experienced team lead\u00a0by F5UFX Seb build their St Brandon setup around the SunSDR2 PRO transceiver, the SPE 1.3K-FA amplifier and ModMic attachable boom microphone.<\/p>\n

3B7A will have\u00a05 x HF stations on air\u00a0<\/strong>simultaneously<\/b>. Each station\u00a0<\/strong>will have a SunSDR2 PRO with E-Coder hardware controller, an amplifier, and a ModMic. Logging is done using WinTest in network configuration and all stations will be able to operate CW, SSB or RTTY.<\/p>\n

All 5 stations will have will have identical configuration from the keyboard to the amplifier. This will keep the operator focused on the pile-up and improve redundancy in case of any equipment failure.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the full article at SunSDR<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Note that I believe the January 2018 Bouvet Island (3Y\u00d8Z) DXpedition would have also been one of the first major ham radio DXpeditions to use SDRs (FlexRadio<\/a> SDRs). Sadly, due to weather and engine problems, 3Y0Z were not able to activate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mike Hansgen (K8RAT), for passing along this press release from SunSDR: The 3B7A Saint Brandon\u00a0team is now active from Saint Brandon and we are exited! This is the first major DXpedition that will be using only SDR transcievers in its setup.[…] Using past experience from their successful FT4TA expedition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,3],"tags":[6965,4098,4102,3422,157,4087,6964],"class_list":["post-31571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","tag-3b7a","tag-dxpeditions","tag-ham-radio","tag-mike-k8rat","tag-sdr","tag-software-defined-radio","tag-sunsdr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8dd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34675,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/sdr-primer-part-3-from-high-end-sdr-receivers-to-sdr-transceivers\/","url_meta":{"origin":31571,"position":0},"title":"SDR Primer Part 3: From High-End SDR Receivers to SDR Transceivers","author":"Thomas","date":"November 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The following article originally appeared\u00a0in the\u00a0October 2018 issue of The Spectrum Monitor magazine: Welcome back to the world of SDRs once again In September we began of our three-part Primer on Software-Defined Radios (SDRs). 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