I think very few hams could afford the KWM-2. I'll give Collins the credit for
the innovation
but I think the Heath SB series had a much bigger influence on the average ham.
73, Roger (former owner of the SB-101)
On 2/7/2015 10:09 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
I'm working on my 62nd year as a ham
CW Skimmer is a form of crutch. Us old timers still do it the old way, tune
around and listen closely, but keep an eye on the P3 display. Love that thing!
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Well, yes but the P3 can also be considered a crutch too. It all depends on
where the crutch/aid line is placed.
1st split capable RX-TX was Heath SB300-SB400 pair.
Confession time... Have but after initial fascination with it do not use CW
Skimmer but rely a lot on the P3. Is having the
I'm working on my 62nd year as a ham and looking back at the history
I've experienced, I think I would credit the KWM-2 as the turning point
in the adoption of SSB over AM. Not that the all the masses could
afford it [in todays dollars, I think it cost around $10K], and there
had been the
U ... I think Art Collins might have beat Heath to that with the
KWM-2 and external VFO, sometime around 1959, followed by the S-Line.
73,
Fred K6DGW
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On 2/7/2015 11:55 AM, Bob
Hi Fred,
Was the 1st for me. Heath SB's were the poor mans Collins and Collins
had a lot of innovations.
73,
Bob
K2TK
On 2/7/2015 4:18 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
U ... I think Art Collins might have beat Heath to that with the KWM-2 and
external VFO, sometime around 1959, followed
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,
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
I will add my two-bit opinion. CW text decode as a crutch when copying
by ear also is a big negative. Whenever I am using CW Decode, my own
copying by ear performance drops a bit because too much leaning and dependence
on the CW decode display for my translation.
I say -- if you are learning
Of course there's the option of learning to copy CW .. (; -)
73
Ken - K0PP
On Feb 6, 2015 8:57 AM, Tom Blahovici tom...@videotron.ca 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
It is less about copying code and more about spotting, Ken. ;)
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