First of all, there is no comparison between the cost of what you just
described and the cost of the software required to provide what I
hypothesized. Secondly, what I hypothesized would stack on top of what
you described without conflict.
So I'm afraid I really don't understand the point of your post.
73,
Dave AB7E
On 7/12/2020 8:47 PM, WILLIE BABER wrote:
There is a way to improve the signal to noise of the CW signal. It is
called the yagi or beam antenna.
The tower, guy system, beam, feedline, connectors, and switching, all
have considerable appeal for some of us, the same as a good paddle, or
a K3 radio.
My four towers and yagis were built by me--solo on the tower--and I do
relate to my antenna system in the same way I do to my German-crafted
cw paddle (even though I did not build it).
The details about how to do anything is subject to standards about
how, exactly, to do it (and without harming yourself or others).
Of course you could decide that an egg is an egg no matter what you do
to it (I have seen some tower systems that I would not climb).
I had several tower Elmers starting with Dave Bunte, k9fn, who put up
my first tower, a BX tower, at the tall height of 32 feet.
I was fearful of that 32 foot tower. Now I routinely go above 100
feet with two towers at 130 feet. I turn 70 years old in September.
If I had more than 4 acres I would have gone to 160 feet, for the sake
of 80 meters.
We all have our limitations (4 acres in my case but a ponderosa
compared to many others) as well as our different ways of making art
but, like a good omelet, the love of art is what makes life so
pleasant, and far less dangerous.
73, Will, wj9b
CWops #1085
CWA Advisor levels II and III
http://cwops.org/
On Sunday, July 12, 2020, 7:07:32 PM PDT, Wayne Burdick
<n...@elecraft.com> wrote:
> On Jul 12, 2020, at 6:57 PM, David Gilbert <ab7e...@gmail.com
<mailto:ab7e...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Think of it this way ... CW works fine as both a contest mode, DXing
mode, and conversational mode. Underlaying CW with a well configured
digital signal processing scheme like that which is under FT8, except
with a different user interface than either WSJT-X or JS8, could be
equally versatile but with maybe 6-8 db better S/N ... possibly by an
even greater margin if the decoding allowed errors instead of being
all or nothing.
Except that (a) you don't have to know CW, and (b) you don't need a
key. There goes 73% of its charm :)
Wayne
N6KR
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