K3 CW decoding.

[VE3WDM]

Good afternoon, during the CQ CW contest the other weekend I used the CW decoder for the woodpecker code speed. I did notice it was picking up a ton of noise and trying to decode it. Is there a setting that reduces the pickup of static noise that is being converted into nonsense letters. My settings at the time were 250Hz filter and threshold was at 3 under decode settings and speed was at 5-40 wpm.
Thanks in advance.
Mike Weir
VE3WDM
     
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[Don Wilhelm-4]

Mike,

You could try changing the decoder threshold.  See "CW Decode Tips" in
the manual (page 31).  "Adjust the threshold so that the CWT bar flashes
in sync with the received CW signal".

A threshold setting of 3 is pretty low and may attempt to decode noise
unless you have a very low ambient noise location.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 12/6/2015 1:44 PM, Mike Weir wrote:
> Good afternoon, during the CQ CW contest the other weekend I used the CW decoder for the woodpecker code speed. I did notice it was picking up a ton of noise and trying to decode it. Is there a setting that reduces the pickup of static noise that is being converted into nonsense letters. My settings at the time were 250Hz filter and threshold was at 3 under decode settings and speed was at 5-40 wpm.
>

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