"Dwight Stewart" wrote in message
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"Dick Carroll" wrote:

If you only had but a small portion of a clue you'd know that
most habd-sent CW not only *can* but WILL "thwart" most
consumer grade computer receive programs. I rather suspect
some more sophisticated writings do a lot better.


The Apple DOS 3.3 disk (early 1980's) came with a simple program,
included
as a programming example, that did a fine job of copying code/CW. I hooked
an unused Apple II Plus to a Kenwood R2000 shortwave receiver and used
that
program to copy code for several months. It rarely missed characters and
almost never missed enough characters to make the message unreadable. The
only times that program failed was when the signal I was trying to copy
was
too deeply buried in the background noise or when multiple stations were
transmitting on the same frequency.

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


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/

No they haven't. The two conditions you state are still problems and good
reasons to learn to copy by ear. The human brain can sort it out when the
computer cannot. Poorly sent and spaced code is also still a problem.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE