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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.