[Fourlanders] CW skimmer

[Brian McCarthy]

CW Skimmer has been on my list of things to do for about a month. It
seems to be creating the same kind of controversy in HF contesting
that WSJT has created for EME. Realistically, CW Skimmer is just
another tool. It can be used well or used poorly. When the rate is
rolling well, a real CW op' will have no need for it. When hunting for
multipliers, it can be of tremendous benefit.

I would love to use it with my SDR-14, but to take advantage of the
full bandwidth, I need more CPU speed than I have currently in my
contest PC's. Yet another example of how the escalation of warfare
continues ever upward.

Cheers,
Brian
NX9O

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Jim Worsham <wa4kxy at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> By the way Bob, I first heard of this at Dayton so you are not too far
> behind the rest of us.
>
> 73
> Jim, W4KXY
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fourlanders-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:fourlanders-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bob Lear
> Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 8:57 PM
> To: fourlanders at contesting.com
> Subject: [Fourlanders] CW skimmer
>
> I saw this demonstrated at the QCWA meeting today by Mac WB4MAK.
>
> I didn't know this was even possible.  There must have been thirty CW
> signals simultaneously decoded in real time off an SDR-5000.  Of course,
> it could have been anykind of SDR or other radio audio.  It was doing
> all the signals in the display passband simultaneously.  It is
> programmed to copy the call sign of the calling station (CQ de xxxx) and
> display it along with the frequency on a band map that you can then
> click on like the band map in Writelog.  You can actually look at all
> the CW decoded also.  I was amazed.  If I can get this working on the
> microwave station, I'll be able to sleep the entire time we are on the
> mountain and not miss a Q!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Check it out.  Google 'Skimmer Software' and it's the first few that
> come up.
>
> Here is a note about it:
> -----------
> So What Is The CW Skimmer?
> The CW Skimmer is software that was developed by Alex Shovkoplyas
> VE3NEA, the man behind DXAtlas and a number of other ham radio programs.
>
> When tied into a radio properly, the program can basically offer you a
> bandmap full of stations, without being connected to any packet cluster
> site, as it automatically decodes and identifies CW signals (see photo
> below.)
>
> The CW Skimmer program and more can be found at VE3NEA's DX Atlas web site.
> --------------
>
> bob W4ZST
>
> Of course, all of you have probably already heard about this long ago
> and are thinking that I just rolled the rock away from my cave
> entrance........
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