[Lowfer] DK7FC

[jrusgrove at comcast.net]

High likelyhood that OPERA would have decoded it ... as it only needs 50% of a transmitted sequence 
for successful copy. WSPR ... not so sure.

Jay W1VD  WD2XNS  WE2XGR/2  WG2XRS/2


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JD" <listread at lwca.org>
To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, &amp;UK) and MedFer bands" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 10:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] DK7FC


>>>> Interesting how the mind takes partial information, consults the mental
>>>> look up table (morse code elements) and makes an incorrect 'best fit'
>>>> determination. A task like this is clearly better left
> to the digital modes ... accuracy wise anyway ;~) .
>
> Well, for sake of accuracy....  At least the human mind sees what it can
> correctly and unequivocally decode without prior knowledge of content (the Q
> and the B) and the subsequent incomplete character, recognizes this
> combination as unlikely and puts it in quotes, then asks for additional
> information.
>
> A machine capable of decoding without prior knowledge would have reached a
> similar partially incorrect solution, but would not have asked about the
> discrepancy.
>
> And a machine dependent on a list of possible messages, having only this
> same sample, would output nothing at all unless the message was already in
> its database.
>
> Maybe it's just me, but I don't think I'm comfortable leaving anything
> entirely to a machine until we build one that can stop and ask, "Huh, can
> this really be right?"  :)
>
>
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