AaronJ wrote:
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they are using a computer. I've even read posts here of hams that said if they
suspect someone is copying CW by computer they switch to excessive weight and
poor sending just to mess up the copy. Seems kind of snobbish to me.
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AaronJ:

They (those guys with the brass taps on, doing a tap dance here) truly
show their ignorance if that is their claim. They get away with that
chit because few have professional programming experience here, indeed,
2nd or 3rd year software engineering students would even be able to
"pull their covers."

If the ear can tell the difference between a di and a dah, the computer
sure as heck will not be fooled!

This would only require that polymorphic coding be used in the software
(self-adapting to such changes which can be deduced and "programmed
for") and adaptive timing (comparing lengths of key-ons (di to dah) and
constantly adapting for changes--only caring for the fact that a di is
consistently shorter than a dah.)

While this might be an interesting enough project for a 2nd to 3rd year
college student, most upper division students would be required to have
skills capable of solving much more complex problems involving
algorithms with magnitudes of greater complexity!

Any software engineer who possesses a bachelors degree will support
this, even if they know NOTHING about amateur radio and ONLY that there
will ALWAYS be a difference in length between a di and a dah and these
length differences are (or may be) of a constantly variable nature.

If you doubt me, call up a college and ask to speak to a instructor in
software engineering ... don't take my word for it.

But, take this bunch of ancient key tappers as any type of
software/algorithm experts? YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME!!!

JS