I try to send at around 18 wpm because I am reasonably confident copying
at that speed. I am finding that many who are sending CW do not slow
down, but that's another story.
I use the decode on my KX3 to help my lack of perfect copying, trying to
copy myself and using that to not annoy the other party. I also use it
tuning around to try to make sure I have the call/QTH right of a station
working several people right, before putting out my call. I do this
especially when the other station is sending way too fast and doesn't
slow down.
It would be nice to have a display of the speed of the decoded CW.
Unfortunately on the KX3 the display has no extra space, so it's
non-obvious where to put this. But if it could appear on the serial
stream, that would help. Perhaps as a "[22wpm] " at some point after
the decoder has locked on. I'm assuming that that the decode software
has already estimated the speed as part of creating a matched filter. I
actually wouldn't mind having the MHz digits replaced by the rx wpm
(perhaps as a menu option to ask for this). Once I'm on a band, I don't
really need the Mhz digits.
It would be further spiffy if there were a way to set TX speed to the RX
speed. It would be a contribution to society if this were
semi-automatic and many people did it....
73 de n1dam
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