Fred is absolutely correct when he says "CW is a pretty tough decode for machinery." Consider the difference between a RTTY signal (or a BPSK signal, etc) and a CW signal...For the former types of signal, there is what one might call "background information" present (the "idle" signal) even when no text is being sent. This is used to sync the decode process. For CW the situation is entirely different: when the flow of alphanumeric information stops, there is nothing present for the machinery to "look at," at all...just spectral noise. IF the CW is sent with rock-solid precision, as from a tape, then the decode proceeds OK, but for ordinary CW, even with a keyer, there are random pauses, spacing errors, etc. This partial inability to decode CW is not the fault of the K3 -- FLDIGI has the same problem, and for (I suspect) the same reason. On HF I am mostly a CW or other digital person, and CW copy is, IMHO, best done by the little grey cells.
John Ragle -- W1ZI ===== On 5/26/2012 12:22 AM, Fred Jensen wrote: > On 5/25/2012 9:13 PM, John_N1JM wrote: >> I'm a little disappointed in the text decoder for cw. It works fine for rtty. >> Anyone got any comments about this? > I don't use it, I'm sort of CW-only, but I have played with it. For CW, > it is fairly picky about bandwidth, the threshold setting when you hold h > TEXT DECODE, and general conditions. CW is a pretty tough decode for > machinery. > > 73, > > Fred K6DGW > - Northern California Contest Club > - CU in the 2012 Cal QSO Party 6-7 Oct 2012 > - www.cqp.org > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > > > -- Sent from my lovely old Dell XPS 420 ______________________________________________________________ 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
