[Elecraft] RE: New concept/tool for CW dxing

2008-02-06 Thread Steve Ireland
G’day For those on the reflector who are wondering what this new ‘tool’ (VE3NEA’s CW Skimmer) is like from a user’s point of view, see the review of well-known contester Pete N4ZR at: www.pvrc.org/~n4zr/Articles/Skimmer.pdf I have used Alex’s Rocky software for the last eighteen months or so

[Elecraft] RE: New concept/tool for CW dxing

2008-02-06 Thread Steve Ireland
G’day For those on the reflector who are wondering what this new ‘tool’ (VE3NEA’s CW Skimmer) is like from a user’s point of view, see the review of well-known contester Pete N4ZR at: www.pvrc.org/~n4zr/Articles/Skimmer.pdf I have used Alex’s Rocky software for the last eighteen months or so

[Elecraft] RE: New concept/tool for CW dxing

2008-02-05 Thread cx7tt
Gentlemen, I do not think this program is a bad idea and not withstanding comments from the cw purists, it could actually increase the number and proficiency of cw operators. When I was just starting out and struggling with 22 wpm, contesters running at 35+wpm just blew me away. I recall

Re: [Elecraft] RE: New concept/tool for CW dxing

2008-02-05 Thread Alan Bloom
It's kind of like watching a foreign-language film with subtitles. Not needed for the fluent, but helpful when you are first learning. Al N1AL On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 00:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentlemen, I do not think this program is a bad idea and not withstanding comments from the

[Elecraft] RE: New concept/tool for CW dxing

2008-02-04 Thread Dave Agsten
I guess this is a tool for those who either only had to pass a 5 wpm CW test or none at all. Now they can QRM the low end CW portions of the bands by pushing a button and letting their radio send 599 or some other programmed response that they couldn't do with a key. It's rather sad. 73 es gud