[Elecraft] CW Contest and Elecraft K3s decoder

[Hisashi T Fujinaka]

I view contests as "an easy way to work DX" for me. I'm on a city lot
that's getting noisier and noisier and CQWW is a good time to find a lot
of DX stations all on the air and willing to make a contact with this
guy with 100W into a vertical.

Not that I got on this year for either contest. :)

On Mon, 27 Nov 2017, Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote:

> I have refrained from working ANY and ALL contests for several years. 
> For that and other reasons.   I view contests today in the same class as 
> "road rage".
>
> 73
>
> Bob, K4TAX
>
>
> On 11/27/2017 2:39 PM, Fred Moore wrote:
>> This is exactly why I do not work CW contests anymore.  CW contests have
>> become a machine contest not a Ham contest... But some people will go to
>> any expense to make sure they are number one.  Not interested in even
>> giving them a 1 point..
>>
>> Fred Moore
>> email: fred at fmeco.com
>>         wd8kni at gmail.com
>> phone: 321-217-8699
>>
>> On 11/27/17 8:54 AM, dick at elecraft.com wrote:
>>> There's a lot of automation.
>>>
>>> Here's one of the best in the world at ZF2MJ, running 20 and 15 meters 
> simultaneously. It's kind of mind-boggling.
>>>
>>> Dan (N6MJ) and Chris (K9LA) won WRTC in Boston, after placing quite high 
> in earlier WRTC efforts.
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3ncFJZqkTA
>>>
>>> 73 de Dick, K6KR
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bill Frantz
>>> Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2017 22:42
>>> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>>> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] CW Contest and Elecraft K3s decoder
>>>
>>> Under the rules, in the assisted categories, using decoders is legal. It 
> is also legal, but perhaps unwise, to use the spotting network to "read" the 
> call signs. Wiser is to verify a spotted call sign, which is a lot easier 
> than to copy it cold. In the unassisted categories, all these techniques are 
> illegal.
>>>
>>> I think most stations were using a macro to send their report.
>>> Since the report in CQ WW DX is constant, setting up a macro is easy. 
> Copying the report is a different matter, but I found the reports easier to 
> copy than the calls, since the reports were all numbers (with some Ts, As, 
> and Ns tossed in for brevity).
>>>
>>> 73 Bill AE6JV
>>>
>>> On 11/26/17 at 9:21 PM, marvwheeler at nwlink.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> I personally don't depend on the rig decoding but listening this
>>>> weekend let me know that either the big boys are using something to
>>>> decode station callsigns and are definite using an automated system to 
> send their report.
>>>> Using the K3S cw speed option I saw several that read over 60 wpm. I
>>>> realize there are those that can copy that fast but not this old boy.
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