At 01:32 PM 11/4/98 -0600, you wrote:
>
>Returning to the real of PICs, there may be some advantages to storing the
act-
>ual sequence of dots and dashes, rather than trying to grab the
information "on
>the fly"; while the dot/dash ratio is supposed to be about 3:1, leaving some
>substantial room for error, I would expect that there are probably some
ham-handed
>operators whose coding is not very consistent.  If you have the ability to
compare
>the length of marks and spaces to those that come after as well as those
that came
>before, you may be better able to divide the marks into the two proper
categories
>and the spaces into three.
>

Hi John,

I think that this would be a good idea, too, except that many such
applications require that the user be able to see the output "on the fly".
Also, I don't think that it is necessary to do what you propose in many
cases. I wrote a routine in BASIC for my PC which does it pretty well and
it just adjusts the max/min dot/dash times as it goes, depending on what is
being received.

Sean

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