[Elecraft] CW Decoding - Your Brain is best

[Fred Smith]

You forgot one thing when you go portable to take your netbook no need for
the key CW will be treated as any other digital mode, no more no less. Just
things progressing as they do many have changed in my lifetime.

73,
Fred/N0AZZ



-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Phil Hystad
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 4:22 PM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net List
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] CW Decoding - Your Brain is best

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
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