"Doug Dotson" wrote in
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I think CW is still more reliable than phone, but certainly not more
effiecient nor is it more practical.


I've been listening to this crap since SSB came out.....

In 1949, it may have been true.

But, I tell you what.....Go download WinWarbler:
http://www.qsl.net/winwarbler/download.htm
for free.

Install it, then simply plug your soundcard's audio input to the headphone
jack on any SSB radio set to USB on 14.070. Pick the faintest PSK31 trace
you can find on that display and click on the trace. Winwarbler will print
perfectly on a signal NO CW OPERATOR COULD EVEN HEAR. Most PSK31 operators
never run over 10 watts. PSK31, by the way, is NARROWER IN BANDWIDTH than
15 wpm CW!

Winwarbler, just to show off, will copy THREE SIMULTANEOUS frequencies
inside the SSB rig's 3 Khz bandwidth this way.

That old CW-in-a-pinch nonsense IS really nonsense, now.

Anyone in their boat's SSB that wants to see what's going on can download
Winwarbler to their boat laptop and tune the Boat SSB radio to USB on
14.070 Mhz, where 90% of the PSK31 traffic occurs. On Lionheart, I don't
even have to connect the M802 to the notebook! The notebook's built-in
microphone can hear the radio's PSK31 warbling tones and prints them
perfectly if there's not too much conversation going on around it!

PSK31 is the most uncanny form of HF communications ever invented....and it
was invented BY HAMS FOR HAMS. Sorry you're stuck on SITOR clicking and
clacking away.

Larry W4CSC and other fine old calls since 1957