On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 5:41 PM, jim <[email protected]> wrote: > ...a better CW code reader would be a better use...
============== Well, it's true, the CW reader gets complaints on here, but I have a different take. I had never tried it until a couple of nights ago -- in fact, I had to look in the manual to see how to turn it on. But I ran across a long-winded qso at about 85 wpm and I couldn't copy a doggone thing. I decided to try the CW reader to see if it was indeed CW. Sure enough, the CW reader started revealing words and then sentences and paragraphs. It missed words, but there was plenty enough copy to follow the whole conversation. I also tried my software CW reader; it got nothing. If you think about it you can see that a CW reader has lots of challenges, way more than an FSK reader. So it looks to me as if that little processor inside the K3 is doing pretty well. Maybe it could be better, but it seems usable as is. And really, the average qso takes place at more like 25, which shouldn't present a problem for plain old ear copy. 73, Tony KT0NY ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
