[Elecraft] CW Decoding - Your Brain is best

[Phil Hystad]

I can see that someone might want to use a K3 CW decode or a computer decode program like CW Skimmer when operating a contest.  After you set things up, very little real CW skill is necessary to be a CW contest player.  Indeed, many probably do just that.

Ultimately of course, the software will get better and the instance of the human operator will no longer be necessary.  Some future glorified computer program can play the game all by itself.  You can even schedule your computer program to startup when the contest schedules begin and stop when they end.  Of course, total control of your rig by remote is included.

Cool -- just think, I could be off doing more interesting things while operating a contest from my Mac hosted computer application.  I could be a high scorer -- I could win!  I would be the contesting CW champ.  Or, at least my program would be but no one need know that.

The best part is that during the contest and during all those automated hours or cranking up my score at 2.7 GHz CPU speeds, I can be out in the wilds nearby with my wire antenna thrown into the nearest tree and operating QRP CW from my KX3 using my Begali paddle.

73, phil, K7PEH