While CW Skimmer may be about spotting the guy calling ...
CW Get and/or the CW text decode capability in the K3 are
*certainly not* about spotting the calling station in the
pile-up. Their only purpose is as a crutch for those who
are either unable due to hearing loss or too lazy to learn
to copy the code.
73,
... Joe, W4TV
On 2015-02-06 2:01 PM, Vic Rosenthal wrote:
It's not about copying CW. It's about spotting the guy a dx station is working
in a 30 kHz wide pileup when a hundred other guys are calling out of turn. A
human can only copy a few calls within a few kHz at the same time, while the
skimmer can get all of them.
Vic 4X6GP/K2VCO
On Feb 6, 2015, at 7:29 PM, Ken G Kopp <[email protected]> wrote:
Of course there's the option of learning to copy CW ...... (; -)
73
Ken - K0PP
On Feb 6, 2015 8:57 AM, "Tom Blahovici" <[email protected]> wrote:
Yes CW skimmer works great. One caveat though with listening on vfo b.
Many people use the built in decoding of cw on the k3 or use software such
as cwget to assist them. This only works on the main receiver so you lose
that functionality.
Two things would be great here. One, having decoding built into the k3
subreceiver. That would fix this when you use it like you do. Second, cw
skimmer should have an option to qsy on vfo b as well.
Tom
va2fsq.com
On Feb 6, 2015 10:06 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR <[email protected]> wrote:
CW Skimmer is a great tool for cracking the K1N pileups because it
decodes the calls of folks calling as well as who just sent 599, and you
can click on the relevant decoder dot to move instantly to that
frequency. I'm using it with an LP-Pan in what Skimmer calls the
Softrock-IF mode.
One rub, though, is that the pileups are so wide that it often is not
possible to go split, listen on VFO A, and transmit on the second VFO,.
because Skimmer tracks VFOA and the action is too far above K1N's
frequency to display on my monitor. My K3 has the separate subRX,
happily, so I can invert things - listen to K1N on VFO B, while tuning
up the band on VFO A looking for the last successful caller. Works
amazingly well.
--
73, Pete N4ZR
Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at
http://reversebeacon.net,
blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com.
For spots, please go to your favorite
ARC V6 or VE7CC DX cluster node.
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