I try to send at around 18 wpm because I am reasonably confident copying at that speed. I am finding that many who are sending CW do not slow down, but that's another story.
I use the decode on my KX3 to help my lack of perfect copying, trying to copy myself and using that to not annoy the other party. I also use it tuning around to try to make sure I have the call/QTH right of a station working several people right, before putting out my call. I do this especially when the other station is sending way too fast and doesn't slow down. It would be nice to have a display of the speed of the decoded CW. Unfortunately on the KX3 the display has no extra space, so it's non-obvious where to put this. But if it could appear on the serial stream, that would help. Perhaps as a "[22wpm] " at some point after the decoder has locked on. I'm assuming that that the decode software has already estimated the speed as part of creating a matched filter. I actually wouldn't mind having the MHz digits replaced by the rx wpm (perhaps as a menu option to ask for this). Once I'm on a band, I don't really need the Mhz digits. It would be further spiffy if there were a way to set TX speed to the RX speed. It would be a contribution to society if this were semi-automatic and many people did it.... 73 de n1dam ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
