I'm slowly getting back into CW after (15?) year break. What is the consensus on using program to decode and encode CW? I know it is better to use a real interface to key the rig than MCW (through signalink only). But is it "bad" to rely on programs until I can copy consistently at 15wpm? I know what the purist will say already but in practical terms what is the best way to go forward and still have fun?
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On 05/09/15, Tim Henry pondered and said...

I'm slowly getting back into CW after (15?) year break. What is the consensus on using program to decode and encode CW? I know it is better to use a real interface to key the rig than MCW (through signalink
only). But is it "bad" to rely on programs until I can copy
consistently at 15wpm? I know what the purist will say already but in practical terms what is the best way to go forward and still have fun?
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Hi Tim,

I have not learnt CW but was using a decode programme some years ago. I'll
try and find it again and let you know the name of it. It was very good but
you did need to register it.

Best, Paul

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I'm slowly getting back into CW after (15?) year break. What is the consens TH>on using program to decode and encode CW? I know it is better to use a real TH>interface to key the rig than MCW (through signalink only). But is it "bad" TH>rely on programs until I can copy consistently at 15wpm? I know what the TH>purist will say already but in practical terms what is the best way to go TH>forward and still have fun?
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You are on the Right Track, GO FOR IT!

Tom
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In a message dated 05-09-15, Tim Henry said to All:

Howdy Tim,

I'm slowly getting back into CW after (15?) year break.

Welcome!

................ But is it "bad" to rely on programs until I can
copy consistently at 15wpm? I know what the purist will say already
but in practical terms what is the best way to go forward and still
have fun?

I have myself been off some time and I find it's easiest to come back by listening to qso's in the cw-portion of the bands.

You will not find many rag chews going on on 20 m or other DX-bands but
try 40 and 80 m.

CU L8ER, Sam, OH0NC

aka Holger

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05-09-15 11:52 Tim Henry wrote to All about CW cheating

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Howdy! Tim,

I'm slowly getting back into CW after (15?) year break. What
is the consensus on using program to decode and encode CW? I
know it is better to use a real interface to key the rig than
MCW (through signalink only). But is it "bad" to rely on
programs until I can copy consistently at 15wpm? I know what
the purist will say already but in practical terms what is the
best way to go forward and still have fun?

I don't see anything wrong using a computer program for a CW QSO.

Just remember not to send faster that the other operator can copy.

I haven't been on the air for years, but when I'm driving on multilane
highways I sound off (in my head) the letters on the license plates of
autos that pass me.

I found a link to listen to W1AW's Code Practice some months ago and
learned that I couldn't copy as fast as I use to.
73, Ed W0ODR

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I'm slowly getting back into CW after (15?) year break. What
is the consensus on using program to decode and encode CW? I
know it is better to use a real interface to key the rig than
MCW (through signalink only). But is it "bad" to rely on
programs until I can copy consistently at 15wpm? I know what
the purist will say already but in practical terms what is the
best way to go forward and still have fun?

I don't see anything wrong using a computer program for a CW QSO.

Just remember not to send faster that the other operator can copy.

I haven't been on the air for years, but when I'm driving on multilane EV>highways I sound off (in my head) the letters on the license plates of EV>autos that pass me.

I found a link to listen to W1AW's Code Practice some months ago and EV>learned that I couldn't copy as fast as I use to.
73, Ed W0ODR

What is that they keep telling us Old Guys?????

"Use it or LOOSE IT" :-) :-)

tom
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Re: Re: CW cheating
By: TOM WALKER to ED VANCE on Tue May 26 2015 08:13 am

I found a link to listen to W1AW's Code Practice some months ago and EV>learned that I couldn't copy as fast as I use to.
73, Ed W0ODR

What is that they keep telling us Old Guys?????

"Use it or LOOSE IT" :-) :-)

Spelling is the first thing to go. :-)

digital man

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05-26-15 08:13 TOM WALKER wrote to ED VANCE about Re: CW cheating

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Howdy! Tom,
-snip-

I found a link to listen to W1AW's Code Practice some months ago and
learned that I couldn't copy as fast as I use to.
73, Ed W0ODR

What is that they keep telling us Old Guys?????

"Use it or LOOSE IT" :-) :-)

I'm going have to look at my replies better than I did this last one.

My call sign is W9ODR, I goofed hitting the Zero Key.
73

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In a message dated 05-28-15, Ed Vance said to Rob Swindell:

GA Ed,

As long as Arthur and his friend Burt Itis doesn't affect my
fingers, I'll be banging away at the keyboard.

No Way! am I going to try Dragon Naturally Speaking if I can't type
because I was visiting at a home many years ago where the fellow
"Trained" that software and then used it to make a Email to send to
me.

Voice Type for OS/2 was included with v. Warp 4 and I installed it.

It worked very well but after a while I began to feel silly sitting
there talking to the computer and the wife in the living room asking if
I said something to her so I haven't used it for many years but it's
still there.

73 de Sam, OH0NC

aka Holger

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05-29-15 07:18 TOM WALKER wrote to ED VANCE about Re: CW cheating

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Re: Re: CW cheating
By: TOM WALKER to ED VANCE on Tue May 26 2015 08:13 am

Howdy! Tom,
-snip-

Back in the late 80's whan I was working i nhe engineering
department of the local VA facility the Anesteshology Research
group were trying to adapt speech recognition for logging
madication administration. It never worked out,
the probem is that ones speech had to be totaly consistant. Get
a cold and you had to re-train the program. Have a tremor in
the voice, Forget it.
Sure it works for simple game playing commanda but for real
transcription of dictation it is a different story.

One year I went to a "Engineers Day" exibit.

In one of the classrooms they had a mike connected to a computer that
was running a program that displayed on a monitor what someone said
into the mike.

It passed my test when I said the alphabet backwards in the mike.

That happened long before my friend tried training the Dragon software
on his Windows 9x pc.
.
I have no idea what computer the Engineering School was using, most
likely it was running a share on a main frame at the school.

I said this because in another room there was a teletype terminal set
up to show how students used a computer at that school.

I'm sure that the pc my friend used in the 1990's probably would look
like a tinker toy compared to the main frame at the school many years
earlier.
73

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05-30-15 17:57 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: CW cheating

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In a message dated 05-28-15, Ed Vance said to Rob Swindell:

GA Ed,

GE Holger,
-snip-

Voice Type for OS/2 was included with v. Warp 4 and I installed
it.

It worked very well but after a while I began to feel silly
sitting there talking to the computer and the wife in the
living room asking if I said something to her so I haven't used
it for many years but it's still there.

I'm glad to learn there is some voice software for personal computers
that works as advertised.
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fuses.

You got that right!
73

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