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+(C) 2013  AG1LE Mauri Niininen 
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+This software is a Morse decoder orinally created by Dr. E. L. Bell in 1977.  
+The software was manually entered from Fortran program listings and later converted to C++. 
+
+2013-SEP-01  	Initial version. Compiled with  gfortran -g  produces a.out. Based on initial testing the 
+		element state estimation works, but translating letters has still problems. Produces a sequence 
+		of letter states but translation to actual characters produces incorrect letters. 
+