[Elecraft] experience with CW and settings

[Bob McGraw - K4TAX]

I agree with Bill's suggestions.  I do find the value of THR is somewhat 
dependent on RF Gain.   Thus more atmospheric noise / static bursts the 
higher value for THR.  In this case reducing RF Gain helps.  This 
evening the RF Gain, hr on 80M, is setting between the 1 o'clock and 2 
o'clock position or the first dot to the right of the 12 o'clock 
position.    And yes do use the SPOT function to accurately tune the 
receiver to the incoming signal.  Also I use Fast ACG for CW.

As to WIDTH I use 0.50 and SHIFT at 0.70 for CW.    With this and the 
above, i get very few    T T ** E E E * E  in the display.

73
Bob, K4TAX
K3S s/n 10,163

On 9/24/2015 6:30 PM, Bill Conkling wrote:
> My experience with CW decode is:
>
> Try setting the THR to 2.  Now, with the CWT enabled press the SPOT button and the little signal marker should align with the index mark.  And, the marker should flash in step with the audio CW signal.  If it stays on too much, set THR up to 3, or vice versa,  If you can’t find a THR setting that is right, set it to a setting that keeps the little marker ON too long, and adjust RF gain CCW until the marker keeps step with the CW audio.  Yu should get good decode at this setting.  Decode will only work if the receiver is tuned spot on to the signal and the marker is flashing every dit nd dah.
>
> …bc nr4c