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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:37:14 -0000
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From: Jan Verduyn <jan.verduyn@gmail.com>
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I expect it is only a matter of time before CW Skimmer will cope with poor 
quality CW signals, similarly to what CWGet is apparently capable of.
Just a case of implementing an the algorithm. If I had to name software 
authors who are capable of doing this than Alex the author of CW Skimmer 
would be at the top of my list...

It's not that many years ago that a skilled CW operator beat the PC at 
decoding CW signals just below noiselevel...with QRSS this has now been 
accepted that a PC does better.

I ran CW Skimmer during 160m contest on 26th Jan and it decoded some 130+ 
stations using a softrock RX... extremely impressive software.

Jan G0BBL


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roman ." <rw3adb@rambler.ru>
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Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 4:34 AM
Subject: Re: LF: CW Skimmer


That systems are working with 'ideal' quality CW signal only.
The other famous shareware program CW skimmer in russia is UA9OSV CwGet:
http://www.dxsoft.com/ru/products/cwget/



* John W Gould <jwgould@iee.org> [Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:54:10 -0000]:
> 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
>
>
>
>

--
Roman ..