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Thanks, Joe...the Morse Code Tutor is an Open Source project that I will make available right after my presentation at FDIM. I will post the schematic and source code on our site at hamradiodesigns.com. The unit looks like this: It costs under $20 to build and lets you set the Farnsworth delay (e.g., send the letters at 30wpm, but space it like it's 5wpm) to use the Koch method for learning. It has a built-in keyer with adjustable speed and sidetone. Since this picture was taken, I've added a 2" speaker that goes on the side of the unit shown above and is driven by a postage-stamp sized 3W amplifier, so there's enough volume for a classroom setting. The trainer also can generate a "random" mock QSO, where it generates random call signs, RST reports, weather reports, names, QTH, rig, antenna, etc. so you can't easily memorize the QSO. The display has a card reader on it, so you could implement the card reader to download Chuck's War of the World or Gone With the Wind and listen to it in CW as you drive to work! It's meant to be powered by a wall wart, external battery pack, or car lighter power source. While it may look complicated, it's not and it would be an easy and fun club build project. Jack, W8TEE
On Tuesday, April 23, 2019, 8:36:09 AM EDT, Joe Street <racingtheclouds@...> wrote:
Hi Chris Your email is a subject I care about.? Jack Purdum is coming out with a morse tutor which will be the ideal thing for teaching you morse code.? DON'T look at and memorize printed material showing characters as dots and lines!? You will end up fighting yourself with an internal mental lookup process which will bite you later on.? Learn to hear the sound of each character and associate the sound with the printed character.? The tutor will have a sort of flashcard process that will do that for you.? Jack W8TEE will be presenting the tutor at the FDIM conference in May and it will be an easy to build arduino project.? I also find the program Morse Learner to be excellent for learning the way I suggest, but althought you can hook up a key, it wasn't as great for learning to send due to delays in the windows operating system.? The arduino tutor will solve that. Morse learner is not so easy to find but I have a windows executable to share with you if you like. The other best resource for you is the CWops website, and they have a rather formal acadmy for teaching code but all reports say is excellent. Best regards Joe ve3vxo On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 8:22 AM Chris Baker via Groups.Io <chrisbuyer=[email protected]> wrote:
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