[Elecraft] Re: CW

[W B Reese]

I'm currently engaged in a great struggle to learn how to run a paddle for 
my mobile operation.  I'm pretty bad at it still, and it's been about 9 
months since I began.  I don't remember the code coming easily at any stage 
in the game.  When I began in 1964, I sat in the school bus one evening on 
the way home and visually memorized it - not a good way to start.  I had no 
elmer and had to work on my own.

This discussion has  been going on & on for sometime now, and I don't have 
time to read all the postings on all the reflectors I belong to.

Has anyone mentioned the Chicken Fat Operators?  We are mostly higher speed 
operators, often using keyboards to send and reading the CW in our 
heads.  W4FOK has written an excellent program that I recommend to all my 
students, you can read the details at: http://www.radions.net/codeclas.htm 
Best of all, when you download "The Mill," it has a free copy of the late 
Bill Pierpont's book in it.

If you spring for the $13 or whatever and buy the book it's a lot more 
convenient and it has a special "High Speed Appendix" in it that I don't 
believe is included in "The Mill" program for free.  In this appendix, he 
talks about how to achieve high speed operation, and I felt it really 
broadened my horizons.

Well fellows, that's my two cents.

Very 73,

TR WB6TMY
K2/100 S/N 0838
Mobile on 40 & 80 morning & evenings on my commute

At 09:23 AM 10/30/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>"Stuart Rohre" <rohre@arlut.utexas.edu> wrote:
>
> > Hope this does not show my ignorance too much.   For those who use
>keyboards
> > to send CW, do they mostly head copy, or do they use a mill,
>(typewriter)?
> > Or do they use a decoder program?
> >
> > I have a decoder board under construction and should finish that thing to
> > see if it is going to be adequate as a detection scheme.  It is the
>Velleman
> > kit version.
>
>I'd be very interested to know more about this kit, and how well it works
>when it's finished. My guess is that it won't work any better than any of
>the PC sound card programs, which I've found to be even poorer than me at
>copying most hand-sent morse. It might even be worse than PC software, if
>it doesn't have use DSP to filter out unwanted noise. Computer decoders
>only seem to work on perfectly-sent Morse in QRM-free conditions. I'd be
>interested to know if anyone actually uses them except to copy machine-sent
>fast CW in contests. If there was a computer decoder that could read
>ordinary Morse in normal conditions, I'd give up the struggle of trying to
>learn to copy at decent speeds in my head. The best PC decoder I've found,
>by the way, is CWGet.
>
>73.
>
>Julian, G4ILO. (RSGB, ARRL, G-QRP, K2 #392)
>G4ILO's Shack: http://www.qsl.net/g4ilo