[Elecraft] CW Contest and Elecraft K3s decoder

[K9MA]

Perhaps my K3 has a problem, but I've never been able to get the CW 
decoder to work very well.  (Nor the digital modes.)  Fortunately, I've 
been copying CW the old-fashioned way for some 50 years, and the K3 
otherwise works just fine.

73,
Scott K9MA


On 11/26/2017 19:32, Bill Frantz wrote:
> In previous years, I used the K3's decoder and it worked very well. 
> But, for this contest, I bit the bullet and said, "I'm going to decode 
> the calls myself to improve my CW." I had a lot of fun doing so, 
> although I had to skip several stations that were sending above 30 WPM.
>
> A small suggestion to those who know CW. If you are calling CQ and 
> getting no answers, like late in the contest, consider slowing down so 
> the CW impaired, like me, have a chance of making the contact. It may 
> improve your score.
>
> 73 Bill AE6JV
>
> On 11/26/17 at 4:09 PM, hk3j.dx at gmail.com (German Duran) wrote:
>
>> Wonderful. I was doing the CQ WW CW contest and a lot of the contest I
>> worked with a software to help decode the stations. In the last hours of
>> the contest I decided to configure the decoder of my Elecraft K3s and
>> started to decode the stations better than with any of the software 
>> that is
>> in the market for this job. Congratulations to Elecraft for this marvel.
>> Germán HK3J
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