Hi Dave:
The best 'decoder' is still between your ears!!! Most (other than VERY
specialized) decoders will get really confused when they ear more than
one in-band signal... so trying to use a decoder in most CW contests
is pretty much useless.
I remember when I was starting out contesting
I believe most of them are indeed copying what is being sent. Most of
the stations I hear in a big contest are the big contesters. They have
big money invested in big equipment and they have lots of experience and
skill. I suspect serious CW contesters have no problems with contest
exchanges at
My experience of trying to use the MFJ with my FT-857 is that it has to be
very good, clear Morse for it to work. I'm still learning, so I'm not good
enough yet to receive correctly, let alone send. But the MFJ just shows
rubbish or doesn't understand it at all.
On 5/11/07 13:26, David Wilburn
The best decoder is certainly not the one between *my* ears! I have
tried just about every method going to try to be able to read Morse
comfortably at 25wpm or more, with no success at all. If anything I am
getting worse with the advancing years! Although I can read most
individual characters at
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
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,
What blew me away trying to get into my third CW contest was the
speed everyone was running. Additionally I had not dealt with
sequential exchanges before, and wanted to listen to one first
to get the feel of the exchange. But it was all too fast.
The concept of answering folks at
Well said, and understanding the exchange is the initial difficulty I
was having. I couldn't find anyone going slow enough to understand how
the exchange was handled. Many folks put NR in front of the sequential
number, which is a big help for us newbies. About half didn't. Some
may be looking
What a nice threadspares me the crazy emails about shipping dates and how
one feels about all that. Patience is a virtue
Tom is rightbest decoder is the REIP and LEIP. Right Ear Input Port and
Left Ear Input Port going through the fastest computer made today with the
results
Patience is a virtue
Patience (n) A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
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