On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:39:13 -0500, Steve Bonine wrote:
My question, based on limited experience with the ability of computers
to copy CW in less-than-ideal conditions, is how many of the signals on
a crowded contest band it would actually be able to successfully decode.
Maybe this technology has made great leaps forward since I last tried
to use it, but I just can't see it being effective enough to dig the
signals out of the QRM and parse out the callsign.

I didn't find any actual use in a contest, so such real-world experience
would be most interesting.

W4LT tested it last night on 40 meters. After the contest is over I'll
see if I can find & excerpt his post. He seemed fairly impressed.

I wonder to what degree the improvement in Morse sending has made this
kind of project more effective? The quality of transmitted Morse (in
terms of spacing & element lengths being correct - and in terms of fewer
errors) has improved considerably since I got my license in 1973.