Topband: Technology Qso's

[Ward Silver]

Bob VK3ZL wrote....
"Claiming DXCC CW using computer generated Morse Code TX-RX would have to be 
the ultimate fraud."

Being a troublemaker here...what else is new?

Speaking as a CW operator whose hearing was never good, not getting better, 
and likely to functionally vanish before cochlear implants become Costco 
items, I am beginning to take an active interest in the digital modes, 
including digital copy of CW.  Let us say that I get sufficiently interested 
to develop my own DSP software that can pull five-minute-opening-CW out of 
the Top Band fog. Would my using such a program constitute fraud? What if I 
write software that can watch a waterfall display and pull out CW?  What is 
the magnitude of the difference between doing it "between the headphones" 
and being able to describe it well enough for a machine to do it?

73, Ward N0AX