[EIDXA] Working K1N on CW

[Rick Hadley]

The beautiful Flex SSDR panadaptor/waterfall makes it very easy to
visualize the entire pileup, and CW Skimmer can show you where in the
pileup he's working and which direction he's moving.  CW Skimmer is also
great for general band monitoring as it will show you who's active and
where.  I'm watching the 3G0ZC pile on 12m at the moment just for fun, as
I've already nailed him on all bands above 40, but I can also see that
CX2AQ is working 5khz above the pile, just below 24.900, and I can see by
the panadaptor that he's only running about an S3 even without clicking on
him to listen.  I spend a lot of time listening to one station while
keeping an eye on the Skimmer to watch for more badly needed stations.  I
can actually do that on 3 bands at once.  The radio is capable of doing it
on 4 bands, but not if I need to work split on one of them, and it really
overworks the graphic cards on my PC.  I predict it won't be too long
before we see a Flexpedition.  With the 50hz filter activated it would make
it a lot easier on the DX station to pick out calls.

Rick, W0FG

On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Jim Spencer via EIDXA <
eidxa at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> This from a DX-CHAT post seems hardly fair.  It must be cheating.  As one
> who thought having two receivers was the ultimate step forward, I'm
> saddened to learn how far behind I am.  Now if K1N had used CW Skimmer/Flex
> SDR and a big display, it would have been possible for Glenn to pull out
> the W0's with little effort.  Maybe the next DXpedition?
>
> 73,  Jim  W0SR
>
> From: DX-CHAT at njdxa.org
> Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2015 7:08 AM
> To: DX-CHAT at njdxa.org
> Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] MRP40-64????
>
>
> I find CW Skimmer to be the best software decoder program.
>
> Then when coupled to my Flex Radio SDR receiver it can decode an I&Q audio
> stream up to 192 kHz wide. This came in very handy during K1N to be able to
> easily "see" where they were listening in the pileups.
>
> It is also capable of decoding demodulated audio out of the radio too.
>
> For sending I use the keyboard CW built into the Flex software which
> allows macros and free form typing.
>
> For the people who worked K1N on cw by just using the vfo and listening,
> my hat's off to you! I never could have done that in 30 kHz wide pileups.
>
> 73
> Dave
> wo2x
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Feb 28, 2015, at 2:09 PM, DX-CHAT at njdxa.org wrote:
>
>
>
>   Steve (KF2TI):
>
>
>   First email I have gotten from DX CHAT in quite a while. I was wondering
> if it was still active. Please advise as to what a MRP40-64 is??? Google
> doesn't recognize it. If it is a CW Decoder, I have previously found that
> CW GET was about the best out  there. Would love to find out otherwise.
>
>
>   John Owens -  N7TK
>
>
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