[TenTec] OT: CW Receive program

[Ron Zond]

Martin amd Otheres

I too have found fldigi's CW skills lacking. I think this is intentional,
as CW is the easisest mode to do in software, and the developers want to
promote the error correcting digital modes. It is more fun to do it in my
head.

Ron
K3MIY

-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Martin Ewing
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 9:48 AM
To: geraldj at weather.net; Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] OT: CW Receive program


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
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