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Category: Ham Software/Apps - Other than logging

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Review Summary For : Afreet Software CW Skimmer
Reviews: 23MSRP: 75
Description:
Program decodes CW signals in a given band of signals and lists call signs, CQ, QRL, 599 and raw text. Using CAT control it allows you to point to a CW station with your mouse and bring the radio up on freq. Allows visual ID of CW, communication with DX cluster, and recording of the I/Q signal for later playback
Product is in production
More Info: http://www.dxatlas.com/CwSkimmer/
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W2SSB Rating: 2008-09-09
Digipan for CW Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
Interesting product and worth checking out the 30 day free trial version. Sort of like Digipan running horizontal with a CW mode added on. 30 day free version is painless download-install and if you have a Donner or other soundcard interface its instant up and running. Weird to see the dots/dashes flowing across the screen - not sure thats overly useable but it is different. Average in its ability to accurately pick out and display call signs, but I only tried it at 7015 khz on a 3 khz SSB reciever as opposed to the wideband type RX that supposedly brings out its best. Ditto for decoding the code to text- seemed to be fairly accurate but pretty susceptible to noise. Overall a fun thing to play with for a few hours that may spot some DX in your passband while you are focusing on another. Not sure about that $75 price tag though when the 30 day trial is over.
RV3APM Rating: 2008-09-08
Fantastic! Time Owned: 3 to 6 months.
It the best CW decoder what i seen.
Weak signal decode like champ and it done in wide band!
Thanks Alex!
W9OY Rating: 2008-05-26
WAYYY COOOL Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
I downloaded this program to play with and it's amazing. The program in conjunction with my Flex 5000 RX allows for a very wide swath of signals in the CW portion of the band to be decoded and listed. The signals are listed according to call sign and if the station is calling CQ or QRL or 599 and the CW signal is displayed in a visual format on a waterfall. Raw text from a CW station is also decoded and the decoding algorithm is amazingly accurate. The extracted calls can be sent to a DX cluster for spotting and the raw I/Q signal can be recorded for later play back, in case you want to relive that contest or pileup experience. Its a fascinating look into the future of ham radio.

This program interfaced with the appropriate little piece of as yet unwritten neural net software could be searching the band for needed multipliers while you sit on another freq and rack up run points. It could even analyze the propagation and interference and order the most statistically completable contacts. The possibilities are simply delicious.....

Ham Radio is too much fun!!