[1000mp] CW Decoding

[Bob Main]

I am trying to get back into CW, although never really was in it to start with.  One of the things I want to work on is my sending.  On the Mark V when you are in the CW mode you can "send" and hear your signal over the speaker.  So I thought it would be easy to put a microphone over the speaker and let the program decode my sending.  My logic was if the program can decode it correctly then a human or another program can decode it equally as well.  So I've been trying to figure out how to do it for the past few weeks and haven't had any luck.  The only one where I got anything was Hamscope, but it gave noise when there was no sound in the room at all so I tried others.  I tried CWGet.  It would show the signal but it never would decode it even when I made sure the line was on my "signal".  It worked "fine" for real signals.  The other day someone on here mention CWDecoder and I went and found it and couldn't get it to do anything, including showing the signal.  Bottom line the microphone over the speaker doesn't work.  Anybody have any other ideas?

So does anybody have any ideas?  For what it is worth I plan to do the copying, not some program, which is another big reason it is taking so long to get back into this.  I have used the two programs above to listen to some code while I practiced copying it.   More than once I heard one character and the program would some something different.  So I still go by the old thing that you can't beat the human ear for pulling the signal out of the noise.

Also for those who are into CW I have not made THE mod yet and the biggest reason is so far I haven't really done anything on the air.  When it gets tot the point that I have enough confidence to get on the air with it and I plan to stick with it, then I will consider it.  Until then, it isn't worth the time or trouble.

Thanks,
Bob
KB4CL