[WriteLog] Writelog and CW contesting for the CW challenged

[Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604]

   Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 20:57:23 +0000
   From: Jerry Flanders <jeflanders at comcast.net>

   I used the "other" CW decoder display a couple years ago in a CW contest 
   just as a test and was SURPRISED at how well it could copy. Often, if I 
   missed something I could just glance at the display and there it was, 
   decoded better than my brain had done! I don't remember how I got it to 
   work, so can't offer any help setting it up. I plan to get into CW 
   contesting when I get a round tuit, and expect it will help when I do.

   You can't just "click" on calls there, as I recall (?).

That's what I understand.  Given that I had to read and retype the
call from rttyrite a lot, that's not a major negative.
And none of the exchange was clickable, either.

I'll also try a second soundcard (maybe in a different computer) and
another totally separate decoder.

I'm thinking about the Soundblaster USB MP3+, if it'll work in the
same computer as a second audio path.  And I have three candidates for
separate decoding software, MIXW, cwGet, and WD6CNF's CW decoder
program.

I am reminded of N1RCT's attempt to work CW WAS using a KAM as a
decoder.  If I'd found AR in SS, I'd have done CW WAS in 18 hours.

73, doug