You forgot one thing when you go portable to take your netbook no need for the key CW will be treated as any other digital mode, no more no less. Just things progressing as they do many have changed in my lifetime.
73, Fred/N0AZZ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Phil Hystad Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 4:22 PM To: [email protected] List Subject: Re: [Elecraft] CW Decoding - Your Brain is best I can see that someone might want to use a K3 CW decode or a computer decode program like CW Skimmer when operating a contest. After you set things up, very little real CW skill is necessary to be a CW contest player. Indeed, many probably do just that. Ultimately of course, the software will get better and the instance of the human operator will no longer be necessary. Some future glorified computer program can play the game all by itself. You can even schedule your computer program to startup when the contest schedules begin and stop when they end. Of course, total control of your rig by remote is included. Cool -- just think, I could be off doing more interesting things while operating a contest from my Mac hosted computer application. I could be a high scorer -- I could win! I would be the contesting CW champ. Or, at least my program would be but no one need know that. The best part is that during the contest and during all those automated hours or cranking up my score at 2.7 GHz CPU speeds, I can be out in the wilds nearby with my wire antenna thrown into the nearest tree and operating QRP CW from my KX3 using my Begali paddle. 73, phil, K7PEH ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
