[Elecraft] Text Decode Issues

[Phil Wheeler]

I've played with a few decoders, Steve -- more out 
of interest than anything else. The one I've found 
most promising is in the NUE_PSK modem. See 
http://www.nue-psk.com/cw/index.html#Receive_ and 
http://www.nue-psk.com/doc/CW%20Mode%20for%20the%20NUE-PSK%20Digital%20Modem.pdf 
But even there you have to make adjustments for 
variations in character and word spacing.

Personally I'd hate to see Elecraft devote much 
attention to optimizing CW decoding, which is a 
pretty specialized field.

73, Phil w7ox

On 4/21/14, 6:32 AM, Stephen Roberts wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> Yes, and it's curious that there are clearly better decoders out there. I built an Open QRP rig last year and the decoder was phenomenal...much better than the KX3, so assuming this is a software issue, is this something that the Elecraft engineers are looking at?
>
> 73, Steve
>
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> On Apr 20, 2014, at 9:11 PM, Gary NL7Y wrote:
>
>> Not sure if it's comparable to the KX3, but I find the current K3's decode to
>> be relatively worthless compared with the original version I owned years
>> ago. Something has changed and somewhere I read it was given it's own AGC or
>> whatever for an improvement.
>>
>> I can send and receive CW to my satisfaction, so for me it's just something
>> I use as a background visual source for my P3/SVGA/monitor while I'm doing
>> something else.
>>
>> If I want to really decode some contest 30-40 CW I use the small portable
>> audio-fed Microcraft Multi-mode gizmo I bought years ago. Works perfectly
>> while the K3 fumbles with the same source. Only the loudest and clearest
>> gets unscrambled.
>>
>> 73, Gary NL7Y