CW waterfall and decoding


Dave AA6YQ
 

When I extend WinWarbler to decode and display RTTY from a subreceiver or
second receiver, I will also extend it to optionally display a waterfall
when the Operating Mode is set to CW.

I had planned to extend either the MMTTY or PSKCore engine to decode CW, but
now that Bob N4HY is back perhaps he'll contribute the killer CW decoder he
promised...

I know that not everyone wants the above features, but that's true of many
popular capabilities in DXLab.

73,

Dave, AA6YQ

-----Original Message-----
From: dxlab@... [mailto:dxlab@...] On Behalf Of Joe
Subich, W4TV
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 7:22 PM
To: dxlab@...
Subject: Re: [dxlab] Secondary CAT serial port


> I don't need a CW decoder all I want is the waterfall.

I'm sure that Dave could make that happen very quickly if you can suggest a
*free* CW Decoder/waterfall application that will iconify and communicate
the waterfall display and decoded data via common memory of Windows messages
like MMTTY, MMVARI or PSKCORE does.

Simply displaying a waterfall serves no purpose (does not meet the needs of
99% of those who want CW receive capability in WinWarbler) and writing a CW
decoder is neither trivial nor productive.

73,

... Joe, W4TV


On 3/11/2012 6:29 PM, Richard B Drake wrote:
The last thing i need is yet another application using even more if my
overburdoned dual monitor screen real estate when WinWarbler could do the
job. I don't need a CW decoder all I want is the waterfall.

73, Rich - W3ZJ Sent from my Kindle Fire

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From: "Joe Subich, W4TV"<lists@...>
Sent: Sun Mar 11 15:06:48 EDT 2012
To: dxlab@...
Subject: Re: [dxlab] Secondary CAT serial port



On 3/11/2012 2:11 PM, Rich - W3ZJ wrote:
I'm with your on that one, but unfortunately it wasn't one of the
choices offered. Often (in fact most of the time) when operating CW,
I put WinWarbler in PSK31 mode and Commander in CW mode so that I can
see the waterfall while listening to CW.
Just run DM-780, fldigi or MultiPSK - with the appropriate bridged
application if necessary - instead of or in addition to Winwarbler.
You could even run CW Skimmer in the 3 KHz mode using Skimmer to
Commander to handle the "clicks" if you wanted to do so.

I would hate to see Dave waste programming cycles on something that
has been done a half dozen times before when there are so many other
things (like a second RTTY window or wideband RTTY decode, sound card
switching by radio, real-time tracking for WPX and WAS, etc.) that
extend DXLab Suite in useful directions.

73,

... Joe, W4TV


On 3/11/2012 2:11 PM, Rich - W3ZJ wrote:
I'm with your on that one, but unfortunately it wasn't one of the
choices offered. Often (in fact most of the time) when operating CW,
I put WinWarbler in PSK31 mode and Commander in CW mode so that I can
see the waterfall while listening to CW. This allows me to visually
zero beat the station of interest and also see where people are
calling. Of course I have to put WinWarbler back into CW mode in order to
transmit.
It sure would be nice to be able to see the Waterfall in CW mode
without having to jump through those hoops. That's been on the list
for as long as I can remember.

73, Rich - W3ZJ

N7DC wrote:
None of the above. I sure would like to see the long standing CW
copy done. Not so much to see the cw copied out, but mostly so I
could see the waterfall, and the three kc or so of band around a
target, or if switched to split operation, to see where people are
calling around the split freq. It would also allow people who are
sending by hand, the capability to see exactly how well they are
sending.

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Andrew OBrien
 

Just one other point.. it is hard to beat the performance of the CW decoder
in Multipsk (with "QRP Decoding" turned on). It works seemlessly with DXK,
and Commander.


Andy K3UK
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Dave AA6YQ <aa6yq@...> wrote:

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When I extend WinWarbler to decode and display RTTY from a subreceiver or
second receiver, I will also extend it to optionally display a waterfall
when the Operating Mode is set to CW.

I had planned to extend either the MMTTY or PSKCore engine to decode CW,
but
now that Bob N4HY is back perhaps he'll contribute the killer CW decoder he
promised...

I know that not everyone wants the above features, but that's true of many
popular capabilities in DXLab.

73,

Dave, AA6YQ

-----Original Message-----
From: dxlab@... [mailto:dxlab@...] On Behalf Of
Joe
Subich, W4TV
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 7:22 PM
To: dxlab@...
Subject: Re: [dxlab] Secondary CAT serial port

I don't need a CW decoder all I want is the waterfall.
I'm sure that Dave could make that happen very quickly if you can suggest a
*free* CW Decoder/waterfall application that will iconify and communicate
the waterfall display and decoded data via common memory of Windows
messages
like MMTTY, MMVARI or PSKCORE does.

Simply displaying a waterfall serves no purpose (does not meet the needs of
99% of those who want CW receive capability in WinWarbler) and writing a CW
decoder is neither trivial nor productive.

73,

... Joe, W4TV

On 3/11/2012 6:29 PM, Richard B Drake wrote:
The last thing i need is yet another application using even more if my
overburdoned dual monitor screen real estate when WinWarbler could do the
job. I don't need a CW decoder all I want is the waterfall.

73, Rich - W3ZJ Sent from my Kindle Fire

_____________________________________________
From: "Joe Subich, W4TV"<lists@...>
Sent: Sun Mar 11 15:06:48 EDT 2012
To: dxlab@...
Subject: Re: [dxlab] Secondary CAT serial port



On 3/11/2012 2:11 PM, Rich - W3ZJ wrote:
I'm with your on that one, but unfortunately it wasn't one of the
choices offered. Often (in fact most of the time) when operating CW,
I put WinWarbler in PSK31 mode and Commander in CW mode so that I can
see the waterfall while listening to CW.
Just run DM-780, fldigi or MultiPSK - with the appropriate bridged
application if necessary - instead of or in addition to Winwarbler.
You could even run CW Skimmer in the 3 KHz mode using Skimmer to
Commander to handle the "clicks" if you wanted to do so.

I would hate to see Dave waste programming cycles on something that
has been done a half dozen times before when there are so many other
things (like a second RTTY window or wideband RTTY decode, sound card
switching by radio, real-time tracking for WPX and WAS, etc.) that
extend DXLab Suite in useful directions.

73,

... Joe, W4TV


On 3/11/2012 2:11 PM, Rich - W3ZJ wrote:
I'm with your on that one, but unfortunately it wasn't one of the
choices offered. Often (in fact most of the time) when operating CW,
I put WinWarbler in PSK31 mode and Commander in CW mode so that I can
see the waterfall while listening to CW. This allows me to visually
zero beat the station of interest and also see where people are
calling. Of course I have to put WinWarbler back into CW mode in order
to
transmit.
It sure would be nice to be able to see the Waterfall in CW mode
without having to jump through those hoops. That's been on the list
for as long as I can remember.

73, Rich - W3ZJ

N7DC wrote:
None of the above. I sure would like to see the long standing CW
copy done. Not so much to see the cw copied out, but mostly so I
could see the waterfall, and the three kc or so of band around a
target, or if switched to split operation, to see where people are
calling around the split freq. It would also allow people who are
sending by hand, the capability to see exactly how well they are
sending.

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