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, 2015, at 7:29 PM, Ken G Kopp <kengk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. >>> >>> ______________________________________________________________ >>> 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 >>> Message delivered to tom...@videotron.ca >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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 >> Message delivered to kengk...@gmail.com > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to k2vco....@gmail.com ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
