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 ." <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]> [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
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Roman ..
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