Many of our links now function as affiliate links. The SWLing Post now participates in two affiliate advertising programs with two large retailers that still sell shortwave radios, the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program and the eBay Partnership, designed to provide a means for sites like ours to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to these retailers of radio products. Many of you have suggested in the past that the SWLing Post join an affiliate links program. Seems to be a very affordable way to enhance your SDR user experience.Ĭlick here to view the PowerMate on Amazon: While looking up PowerMate pricing, I noticed more complex multimedia controllers on Amazon I’m curious if any Post readers have experience with other models. I’m quite tempted, in fact, to buy a second unit to use with my laptop and to serve as a spare. The good news is a new PowerMate is only about $32 via. The PowerMate software allows you to set up multiple configurations, so it’s easy to call up a configuration based on the SDR being used (since mine have unique hotkeys). Soon, I’ll set it up to work with my Elad FDM-S2, and S DRplay RSP. It has enhanced my user experience with the Excalibur. The PowerMate is a brilliant piece of kit!
Pressing down and rotating increases and decreases bandwidth.Press and hold launches the WinRadio Excalibur application.I set up the PowerMate to control my WinRadio Excalibur as follows: Press down and rotate clockwise and counter clockwise.There are a surprising amount of functions this simple knob performs: The software makes it very easy to associate PowerMate controller actions with keystrokes and other PC functions. I took the controller home assuming it would be cumbersome to interface with my SDRs– what a poor assumption I had made! It was a breeze: simply install the driver, and launch its associated application. I purchased it for $5 after I believe he had offered it for free (yes, the results of reverse negotiations). Knowing I’m an avid SDR guy, he insisted I give this Griffin Powermate controller a go. We were actually in reverse price negotiations at one point–as he kept discounting prices, I was trying to raise them. The seller is a friend he was trying (and succeeding) to push off a lot of his gear on me. One of the best bargains I found was a Griffin Technology NA16029 PowerMate USB Multimedia Controller. I walked out of that hamfest carrying way more goods than I had intended to purchase (more on that in a future post–!). A few weeks ago, I attended the WCARS hamfest in near Waynesville, North Carolina.
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