![]() ![]() Thank God for Google Calendar! I’d forget my head if it weren’t attached! Hi Hi! I have to rely on Google Calendar email reminders to remember to take my chemo meds everyday and to remember my 4 CW skeds I have right now. YV5EN Edwin is probably right about his opinion, but after 16 years of CW I still haven’t gotten my brain to copy 40+ words per minute yet.I just finally made it to 23 wpm! I don’t live on CW 24/7 and if I did that would probably help me a lot, but my old brain doesn’t work all that great anyway. The only thing I don’t like about it so far is it won’t expand to full screen like CWGet will.Thought I’d share that info. Also, a friend of mine told me just this week about one he uses that is freeware called CW Decoder XP version 2.99 designed by WD6CNF and he says it works great.I just installed it, but haven’t really tested it enough yet to form my own opinion. You can download and use it for free for receive only and the only thing is if you close the program it won’t retain your settings unless you buy the license so you have to set it up again next time you use it. Julian, I have a hard time copying the 40+ wpm keyboard CW ops during the contests and Dxpeditions, but I’ve been using CWGet for decoding those guys for several years now and it works great! It’s not freeware, but I’ve been using it for free. But as a morse decoder pure and simple MRP40 is still the winner in my book. That is, after all, what it has been designed to do. This is perhaps understandable given that Skimmer is intended to be able to distinguish between multiple signals in a pile-up.ĬW Skimmer is the better program if you want to decode all the calls in a swathe of spectrum and if you want to link to your logging program so as to highlight new countries or prefixes and mark stations you’ve previously worked. CW Skimmer seemed more fussy and didn’t decode a signal unless you got it spot-on. ![]() It could track drifting stations and would adjust itself precisely to the signal if you didn’t click exactly on the trace. I also found MRP40’s AFC useful in locking on to signals. MRP40’s decoder is less laggy than CW Skimmer’s – text appeared sooner after it was sent. Skimmer also seemed on occasion to insert an spurious E at the beginning of some words or calls when I didn’t hear an extra dit. It decoded text more accurately and the spacing between words was better – CW Skimmer would often run words together then insert a space in the middle of a word. After listening to many QSOs I am still of the opinion that MRP40 is the best decoder. ![]() I ran both programs simultaneously decoding the same signal. A few days ago Paul PC4T commented to one of my posts that he thought CW Skimmer was better so I thought I would give it a try in case I was missing out. you may have to start MRP40 a couple of times to flush any residual values for the TX speed.For several years now I have been of the opinion that the best Morse decoder for Windows PCs is MRP40 by Norbert Pieper. Just close the dialog box with the error and the MRP40 application will close. when you close MRP40, it will throw an error 75 (this is a Path / File Access Error) because it cannot write to the ini file you just set to READ-ONLY. I like 18wpm as my preference STEP 4 - edit the ini file's Properties (right clic to see menu) and under the General tab, check the Attribute Read-only and click OK to close the window Step 5 - test the fix by starting MRP40 and verifying that your TX speed text window has the desired wpm value. STEP 3 - edit the first line with your desired MRP40 TX wpm. In my MRP40 version, the first line in the 'MRP40.ini' MRP40 config file (located in the installation directory - typical path = C:\Program Files (x86)\HamRadioSoftware\MRP40 Morse Decoder Vnn STEP 2 - save a copy since this file holds your current MRP40 configuration. This will write an updated ini configuration file. Using the TX speed = the RX speed option can get out of control if noise bumps the speed up to 52wpm in the middle of a QSO -) WORKAROUND: this works for me and may not work for others but I'll share it: Before beginning, set up MRP40 the way you want it to behave and close it. I volunteered to test any future support for the WKmini. He advised that the MRP40 software is designed to only fully support the WinKeyer models with an external speed control. Noting that the MRP40/Options/TX Speed cannot be manipulated by the MRP40 + / - UI controls AND that the UI Options/TX Settings/Set Minimum WpM speed is limited to no more than 15WPM, I asked Norbert, the MRP40 developer, what I might be doing wrong. Gerald - My configuration is using the MRP40 software (MRP40v62.exe) with the WKmini.
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