Has anyone looked to see if the Faros software by the same author can be
adapted to automatically monitor LF beacons (hams, utility stations, NDBs)?
Looks like a neat tool especially if you can load stations in place of the
NCDXF HF beacons.
73 Warren K2ORS
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Dennison" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: LF: CW Skimmer
This software is reviewed in the March RadCom which posted to members
today.
Mike, G3XDV
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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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