[Elecraft] OT: CW Skimmer

[Vic Rosenthal]

It's not about copying CW. It's about spotting the guy a dx station is working in a 30 kHz wide pileup when a hundred other guys are calling out of turn. A human can only copy a few calls within a few kHz at the same time, while the skimmer can get all of them.

Vic 4X6GP/K2VCO 

> On Feb 6, 2015, at 7:29 PM, Ken G Kopp <kengkopp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Of course there's the option of  learning to copy CW ...... (; -)
> 
> 73
> 
> Ken - K0PP
>> On Feb 6, 2015 8:57 AM, "Tom Blahovici" <tomb18 at videotron.ca> wrote:
>> 
>> Yes CW skimmer works great. One caveat though with listening on vfo b.
>> Many people use the built in decoding of cw on the k3 or use software such
>> as cwget to assist them. This only works on the main receiver so you lose
>> that functionality.
>> Two things would be great here. One, having decoding built into the k3
>> subreceiver.  That would fix this when you use it like you do. Second, cw
>> skimmer should have an option to qsy on vfo b as well.
>> Tom
>> va2fsq.com
>> 
>>> On Feb 6, 2015 10:06 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR <n4zr at contesting.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> CW Skimmer is a great tool for cracking the K1N pileups because it
>>> decodes the calls of folks calling as well as who just sent 599, and you
>>> can click on the relevant decoder dot to move instantly to that
>>> frequency.  I'm using it with an LP-Pan in what Skimmer calls the
>>> Softrock-IF mode.
>>> 
>>> One rub, though, is that the pileups are so wide that it often is not
>>> possible to go split, listen on VFO A, and transmit on the second VFO,.
>>> because Skimmer tracks VFOA and the action is too far above K1N's
>>> frequency to display on my monitor.  My K3 has the separate subRX,
>>> happily, so I can invert things - listen to K1N on VFO B, while tuning
>>> up the band on VFO A looking for the last successful caller. Works
>>> amazingly well.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> 
>>> 73, Pete N4ZR
>>> Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at
>>> http://reversebeacon.net,
>>> blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com.
>>> For spots, please go to your favorite
>>> ARC V6 or VE7CC DX cluster node.
>>> 
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