"Len Over 21" wrote:

"Dwight Stewart" writes:
I haven't purchased a program like that recently, but
surely they've gotten better over the years. Is that not
the case?

They have, but the mighty morsemen consider such to
be desecrations of the will of the old radio gods.


Well, I suspected the programs might have gotten at least somewhat better
over the years. The author of the program I had wrote about trying to
compensate for bad code by looking for patterns instead of focusing on each
individual dot and dash as it was being sent. The program also didn't use
hard rules for dot, dash, and space, length, instead interpretating each as
it went along. Obviously, I don't know the details, but the program did do a
pretty good job considering it was just a simple programming example
included with an operating system. My only complaint was that it didn't send
code like some of the other programs advertised, but I couldn't have used
that back then anyway.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

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