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From: "mal" <g3kevmal@talktalk.net>
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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:26:32 -0000
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Subject: LF: Re: CW Skimmer
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John
These devices depend on the quality of morse sending. They will not read
poorly and badly sent morse, which  is more common than you think.
For auto sent morse they work well.
There is no substitute for a skilled cw operator.
de Mal/G3KEV

----- Original Message -----
From: "John W Gould" <jwgould@iee.org>
To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 7:54 PM
Subject: LF: CW Skimmer


Not sure if this has been mentioned on this group but an interesting piece
of software by Alex, VE3NEA, called CW Skimmer has recently been made
available, see
http://www.dxatlas.com/CwSkimmer/

Although the software costs $75 one can download a trial version (30 days).
It's interesting to see that whilst away from the shack this evening the
program correctly identified G3KEV (501.9 at 19:35) and also G0MRF (503.0 at
19:37).   The callsign picking routine must have been designed for the HF
bands, where the protocol is very mature, so got a bit confused with the
protocol used on 500kHz and eventually decided that David callsign was
IO91TK!

It seems to need a reasonable S/N, but could be quite useful if one is not
able to personally monitor the band all of the time.  Have others tried it?

73 John, G3WKL






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