[CQ-Contest] CW with FLDigi?

[Richard Eversole]

OK, I did a study in 2014/2015 of all the software decoders I could get my
hands on at the time and noted that Skimmer was simply the best for decode.
It offers multi-channel decode which is important if you even think you
want to run (would not recommend with any software decoder).

fldigi, dm780 (part of hamradio deluxe) and cwget were a distant 2nd.

I have a whole presentation on the study (at home not here at work).

While Skimmer is good and it might have won in 2009 study over humans, I
worked FT5ZM without the aid of skimmer which could register no signal.
Took me a couple to be sure they were working me...  and I still do not
know the code.... If you hear me on CW, it's with software.

Only do S&P with software, even skimmer is challenged in a pile-up.

As for being able to click and log with these, only do that if you are
physically challenged, much easier to type into the software for CW.

It would be nice to see the software people get the click to capture
working with the loggers but so few people actually use the software that
it is probably not likely to be totally fixed.


Rick "The Rhino" N6RNO
@Tehama October 1-2, 2016 (Probably)
Where will you be?

http://www.cqp.org

On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 5:31 AM, VK4TS Trent Sampson <vk4ts at outlook.com>
wrote:

> Hi Hank,
>
> From VK4SN last year's CQWPX CW we compared FL Digi and CW Get interfaced
> to
> N1MM Plus.
>
> CW Get did the better job but the filters and settings needed tweaking -
> and
> as we tried with an unregistered copy the settings are not retained.
>
> Both were pretty good - we used them on not so narrow filter 500hz on a
> FT2000. Copy rate once set was over 95% obviously not as fast as ears but
> maybe only a character in it.
>
> Recently noticed that RCKLog will actually grab callsigns and serial
> numbers
> from CW Get - this is also a feature of AA Log.
>
> Almost like running CW RTTY. Don't know if N1MM+ has introduced the
> callsign/serial grab interface as yet.
>
> Hope to hear your friend in this years CQ WPX CW
>
> Trent VK4TS op at VK4SN CQWPX CW 2016
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> Hank Greeb
> Sent: Tuesday, 5 April 2016 1:01 PM
> To: CQ-Contest Reflector
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] CW with FLDigi?
>
> I'm trying to help a relative newcomer to set up his rig for the MiQP.
> He's just learning CW, we note that FLdigi can send and decode CW.  I've
> used FLdigi for Hellschreiber and PSK-31, but never with trying to decode
> CW
> under contest conditions.  From what I've encountered in MiQP and similar
> contests, there's seldom a condition where "good ears"
> couldn't work with a recevier 2 KHz bandwidth or so, which these software
> packages generally use with a rig in the SSB mode.
>
> Has anyone had experience with using it, or another "digital" software
> package, in a simple CW contest like MiQP?   It would help his
> multiplier count if he could make some CW contacts with an aid like FLdigi.
>
> Please don't "put this question down" - I'd like to encourage the newbies
> to
> contesting to give it their all, and use all the technology available.
>
> 72/73 de n8xx Hg
> QRP >99.44% of the time
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