[Elecraft] CW Decoding - Your Brain is best

[M5FRA - Colin]

I wonder what constitutes a QSO on some digital modes. Using Opera you 
can click the auto QSO button and even automatically upload the 'QSO' 
to eqsl. The op does not have to do anything much other than watch the 
screen. You could get your DXCC by just leaving the computer running 
long enough. Thing is who would get the award, the computer or the OP? 
No contact with other human beings and minimal effort. Buy a radio, an 
antenna and a PC, download the software, add you details to the prog 
and let it run? Is that what the hobby has come to? 
  
Colin - G8FRA/M5FRA
  
m5fra.org.uk <http://www.m5fra.org.uk>


------ Original Message ------
From: "Fred Smith" <mfsj at mo-net.com>
To: "'Jim Dunstan'" <jdunstan at tbaytel.net>;elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Sent: 08/11/2012 22:49:12
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] CW Decoding - Your Brain is best
>I'm one who doesn't "enjoy" digital modes none of them CW included it's just
>a tool to make contacts with is all it is. Computers are made for digital
>modes and have brought them a long way with the JT65 modes to where we can
>work stations that could never be worked on CW and even with QRP. I enjoy
>speaking to someone on the phone for only for so long then I want to hang up
>also.
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