Return-Path: Received: from rly-dd02.mx.aol.com (rly-dd02.mail.aol.com [172.19.141.149]) by air-dd01.mail.aol.com (v121.4) with ESMTP id MAILINDD012-b6047b1d10d1ed; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:02:26 -0500 Received: from post.thorcom.com (post.thorcom.com [193.82.116.20]) by rly-dd02.mx.aol.com (v121.4) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINDD022-b6047b1d10d1ed; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:02:08 -0500 Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.14) id 1JOyVs-0001dd-0h for rs_out_1@blacksheep.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:01:44 +0000 Received: from [193.82.116.32] (helo=relay1.thorcom.net) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1JOyVr-0001dU-Le for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:01:43 +0000 Received: from mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.48]) by relay1.thorcom.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JOyVl-0008Jm-SC for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:01:43 +0000 Received: from aamtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20080212170320.SZVD27871.mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:03:20 +0000 Received: from mikedennison ([82.15.231.232]) by aamtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20080212170519.GJRS26699.aamtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@mikedennison> for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:05:19 +0000 From: "Mike Dennison" To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:01:18 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <47B1D0DE.18046.30EAED@localhost> In-reply-to: <003001c86ce7$e1cd6a40$0d01a8c0@acer5gi5q0ubzj> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-description: Mail message body X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=wJrNy7-0gL4A:15 a=9YlaCzn6_68A:10 a=BhsktuiqiA44DqWoBDdu0Q==:17 a=UeKr-3LZAAAA:8 a=-Vmwta67LpABS5kA7eAA:9 a=WELK4UoaedV75lQGMLbSeU9pDJAA:4 a=XF7b4UCPwd8A:10 X-Karma: 0: X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: autolearn=disabled,none Subject: Re: LF: CW Skimmer Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on post.thorcom.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes Sender: owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: rs_out_1@blacksheep.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-AOL-IP: 193.82.116.20 X-AOL-SCOLL-AUTHENTICATION: listenair ; SPF_helo : n X-AOL-SCOLL-AUTHENTICATION: listenair ; SPF_822_from : ? This software is reviewed in the March RadCom which posted to members today. Mike, G3XDV ========== > 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 > > > > >