[Elecraft] OT: CW Skimmer

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

While CW Skimmer may be about spotting the guy calling ...
CW Get and/or the CW text decode capability in the K3 are
*certainly not* about spotting the calling station in the
pile-up.  Their only purpose is as a crutch for those who
are either unable due to hearing loss or too lazy to learn
to copy the code.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV



On 2015-02-06 2:01 PM, Vic Rosenthal wrote:
> 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
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>> 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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