Cecil Moore wrote in news:tL6oh.32477$Gr2.30874
@newssvr21.news.prodigy.net:

John Smith I wrote:
... technology, ain't it wonderful? Welcome to the new millennium!

My SCS PTC2e multimode controller will copy PACTOR2
DX signals from Europe that I cannot even hear and
don't even budge the S-meter. It also copies CW at
faster speeds than I can copy.

That's true insofar as it goes, but code that is sent badly by hand is hard
for any hardware or software to copy, other than the human brain, and code
is easy to send badly by hand!!! For this reason many even send by computer
and read by ear. I don't, I just don't use the mode atall, but those who
indicate that machine reading has problems have a good point.