[Skimmertalk] Waterfall Sensitivity

[Dave - AB7E]

Same here.  I've played a LOT with the trace controls on CW Skimmer and it still doesn't display weak but perfectly readable signals.  I'm feeding the Line Out audio from my K3 into a good quality, low noise sound card (M-Audio 2496), so I don't think it is any kind of software issue.

By the way, I've been using the waterfall from CW Skimmer as a running 12 second visual display of in-band (300 Hz or so) CW signals during contests to visually pick up characters that I missed the first time by ear.  It's a bit clumsy, but it comes in handy enough to make it worthwhile having.  I wrote a simple AutoHotKey macro to pause the CW Skimmer waterfall from the keyboard so I don't have to move my hand to the mouse.

73,
Dave   AB7E


------Original Mail------
From: "Barry N1EU" <barry.n1eu at gmail.com>
To: <skimmertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:17:24 +0000
Subject: Re: [Skimmertalk] Waterfall Sensitivity

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Bill Tippett <btippett at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> Even though I could copy his signal Q5 by ear, Skimmer was
> detecting absolutely nothing of his signal...not even a faint trace.
> I'm beginning to feel this is a limitation of Skimmer's software
> rather than hardware and am wondering if anyone else has observed this
> on extremely weak signals.

I often observe the same thing. I've had no success trying to adjust
the trace controls to bring up the waterfall sensitivity.

73,
barry N1EU
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