[TenTec] OT: CW Receive program

[Martin Ewing]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Dr. Gerald N. Johnson
<geraldj at weather.net>wrote:

> fldigi works CW and many true digital modes. Tunable from the waterfall
> display.
>
> Our local club president claimed his 200th country last week and can't
> copy a bit of CW all with CW programs.
>
> I expect a CW copying program fails miserably with hand sent or banana
> boat swing vibroplex sent CW. The early MFJ cw reader had that problem.
>
> 73, Jerry, K0CQ
>
>
My ears fail miserably with bad sending, too!

Even with electronic keyers, people often don't get the character/word
spacing right or confuse "B" and "6" etc., and that throws off any software
that doesn't understand the context of the QSO.  (AI, anyone?) But I can
often do better than software decoders in the presence of noise or
interference.  When I'm lazy, I will use fldigi to decode, but listen along
and mentally correct its misfires.

I worked the RTTY contest this weekend with fldigi.  No chance that I could
read Baudot in my head.  (But maybe someone has accomplished that?)

73 Martin AA6E