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
> as cwget to assist them. This only works on the main receiver so you lose
> that functionality.
> Two things would be great here. One, having decoding built into the k3
> subreceiver.  That would fix this when you use it like you do. Second, cw
> skimmer should have an option to qsy on vfo b as well.
> Tom
> va2fsq.com
>
> On Feb 6, 2015 10:06 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR <n...@contesting.com> wrote:
> >
> > CW Skimmer is a great tool for cracking the K1N pileups because it
> > decodes the calls of folks calling as well as who just sent 599, and you
> > can click on the relevant decoder dot to move instantly to that
> > frequency.  I'm using it with an LP-Pan in what Skimmer calls the
> > Softrock-IF mode.
> >
> > One rub, though, is that the pileups are so wide that it often is not
> > possible to go split, listen on VFO A, and transmit on the second VFO,.
> > because Skimmer tracks VFOA and the action is too far above K1N's
> > frequency to display on my monitor.  My K3 has the separate subRX,
> > happily, so I can invert things - listen to K1N on VFO B, while tuning
> > up the band on VFO A looking for the last successful caller. Works
> > amazingly well.
> >
> > --
> >
> > 73, Pete N4ZR
> > Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at
> > http://reversebeacon.net,
> > blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com.
> > For spots, please go to your favorite
> > ARC V6 or VE7CC DX cluster node.
> >
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