Cross Country Wireless Sentinel SDR program
Cross Country Wireless Sentinel SDR program
Product discontinued, web page for information only
The Sentinel SDR program is designed to work with our Sentinel 2 SDR receiver and our new Sentry 5 SDR transceiver under development. It does not support the original Sentinel receiver.
The program sends and receives commands using CAT control emulating the Elecraft K3 transceiver over a USB serial port link.
The program has some interesting features. As the Sentinel 2 is a true zero IF receiver clicking on the display moves the frequency of interest to the centre of the display. The display is 48 kHz wide and there is a zoom facility to enlarge the display to 12 kHz wide with greater resolution. This is particularly useful for CW operation as clicking on a CW signal moves it into the filter which can be a narrow as 50 Hz. A fine tuning knob with 10 Hz steps is perfect for precision tuning and is ideal for use with touchscreens and mouse operation. In addition frequency entries can be made by typing the frequency into any of the Memory, VFO-A or VFO-B text boxes and clicking recall or update. In Memory 1, 2 and 3 clicking on Save saves the current frequency for later use. Transceiver split or crossband operation is already ready for use. Options to pause the display to save CPU cycles and change the display colour to black and white are also included. A UTC clock in the top program bar and a button to the latest Space Weather bulletin complete the program features.
The program is designed for all versions of Windows from XP to 10.
As the receiver uses a built-in sound card the calibration is independent of the PC used and it will be supplied with calibration information traceble back to National Standards. This will allow the RF level and frequency measurements to be calibrated to a professional standard.
The program uses CAT control emulating an Elecraft K3 over a USB serial port. The program runs on Windows XP, 7, 8 and 10 with a low CPU load so that older PCs and laptops can be used.
Contact Chris Moulding, G4HYG via Email address hidden from spambots for more details. This software is based on the SDRConsole source code written by Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR under the GNU General Public License. A copy of the Sentinel 2 source code is available on request under the same license.
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