[Elecraft] CW Contest and Elecraft K3s decoder

[Bill Frantz]

I get "reasonable" results. What I find is that the faster the 
sender, the better the decode. The ways I have found to improve 
decode are:

   Use CWT to exactly tune the signal.
   Use narrow bandwidth -- 250 Hz or less on the DSP filter
   Adjust the RF gain to minimize noise while still having signal.

I use CW 5--40 as my usual decoder setting.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 11/27/17 at 3:46 AM, jstengrevics at comcast.net (John 
Stengrevics) wrote:

>I too have never been able to get the CW decoder to work well.  
>It only works if signals are super strong - precisely when I 
>don’t need it.
>
>Anybody have any suggestions?

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