Hi all,
I know that this topic has more or less gone its way, but I just got a chance to try this out during the past weekend.
I hadn't had much luck with decoding CW on the K3--usually a bunch of asterisks and "E"s and nothing else. However, I got new 700Hz filters a week ago or so and wanted to try them out and also was curious about what I had been reading. I do pretty good copying CW but when they start send 30wpm or so in contests I often have a lot of trouble copying DX callsigns from scratch. I originally tried copying from 4.48 but had no luck and could never get it to work, in spite of what I read in the posts.
What a surprise I got from version 4.51!! It would read any strong signal without any trouble, even when there are other signals nearby. When I used tighter (700 or 400) filters or APF it was even better--just as Wayne and others had mentioned. No, it wouldn't copy EVERY character here at my very noisy location, but I found that it did help me verify what I "thought" I was hearing on the, for me, ultra-fast CW in this weekend's contests.
I also downloaded and installed the latest version of MacLoggerDX, which now sports a CW reader for use with the K3, and it was excellent, recording the same characters that passed on the K3 screen with the addition of the ability to see at least 5 lines of code and at least some scroll-back. [not an ad for MacLoggerDX but think it is worthwhile noting]
So, the new version gets my un-expert vote for a great improvement in this area. Keep up the good work, Elecraft!
73, Scott XE1/AA0AA; AA0AA
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