A friend has the MFJ pocket decoder. I have tried it. It is not perfect, but if you connect it to the radio instead of just audio, it works better. And with the filters in the K2, I can drill down to the signals I want. My thoughts were that most were sending electronically, as you mentioned, which is what these decoders like.
It has taken me years to get to where I am with my copy. I'm mainly looking for something to help me get snippets of the exchange while I am listening to QSO's, so I know most of the info when I return their CQ. Would be happy to practice with you sometime Julian, I sure need the practice. Many have mentioned the smaller nets and contests too. I need to do more of those also, to build up my skills. SS was only my 4th contest, and only my 3rd CW contest. When I was frustrated at the beginning of the contest, I downloaded HRD and tried to figure it out. Finally worked through all of that, to find out that the sound card in my only windows machine is deaf. I have a linux box sitting there, but did not try it. - David Wilburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] K4DGW K2 S/N 5982 On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 14:29 +0000, Julian G4ILO wrote: > I've never tried the MFJ, though I was tempted to get one. > > On Windows PCs, the CW decoder in MixW is pretty poor. About the best > is CWGet, as long as you manually set the threshold to above the level > of noise. However, all DSP based Morse decoders only work when you > click on the exact centre of the transmitted signal - just like > receiving PSK. Unfortunately in CW - unlike data modes - people don't > usually reply on the exact frequency you are sending on. Any AFC > function in the software is much too slow, and just as likely to lock > on to another signal entirely. So the reality is that computer > decoders are useless for contest work except in S&P mode where you can > net on to the station you want to work before you call him. > > In those circumstances I have found they work really well, especially > as contest stations are usually sending well formed electronically > generated code which computer decoders prefer. > > Pocket Digi running on a Windows CE hand-held (e.g. Dell Axim) makes a > very good standalone decoder. Just stand it next to the radio and it > decodes whatever it hears on its microphone. > > The best computer decoder I have tried was G-PSK31 for Linux. That was > one of the reasons behind my attempt to switch to Linux for the shack. > Unfortunately after someone suggested I try FLDigi my sound card > stopped working with either of the programs and I hadn't a clue how to > fix it, so I went back to Windows. > _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
