[CW] CW Practice Text - for users of code tutor/trainer software

[Richard Knoppow]

     The G4FON Koch Trainer is a small freeware Windows program. 
It will translate any txt file into Morse. That will give you an 
infinite amount of practice material. There are also web sites 
with Morse such as the ARRL site and
http://cw.dimebank.com:8080/
     If you ever knew Morse these will brush you up pretty fast.
     I study every day to try to improve my speed and accuracy. 
Learned Morse when I was about 13. I still struggle with it a 
little. I have learned that the advice not to study too long is 
very true. No more than half an hour at a time. But, you have to 
keep at it. The G4FON trainer has options to introduce noise, 
QRM, irregular sending, chirp, etc to mimic what is heard on the 
air (well sort of). I also listen on the air and look for 
imperfect sending to try to learn how to read bad fists as well 
as perfect machine sent code.
    Some people will tell you that they start out and two weeks 
later are reading fifty WPM. I am not one of them. Too bad. When 
the weather is right I can read maybe 30 WPM in my head.

On 8/4/2019 12:09 PM, Bill Lanahan wrote:
> I don’t use cmd line tutors 😊 I use Just Learn Morse Code and 
> LCWO.net <http://LCWO.net>, but I have a command window open 
> where I run my tool.  I wish I could actually relearn code after 
> a 40 year holiday. It does keep me interested and hopeful. I hope 
> all the drugs they gave me didn’t mess that part of my brain. 
> I’ll look at your archives. Tnx fer that Info.
> 
> 73
> 
> Bill
> 
> On Aug 4, 2019, at 14:55, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net 
> <mailto:n1ea at arrl.net>> wrote:
> 
>> Hello Bill and thanks,
>>
>> A fellow on the Debian Accessibility mailing list recently 
>> asked me if there was a CW tutor that ran on command line.
>>
>> I told him about aldo, but it's not working anymore even with 
>> alsa-oss installed.
>>
>> oss aldo
>> terminate called after throwing an instance of 
>> 'libaudiostream::AudioException'
>>  what():  std::exception
>> Aborted (core dumped)
>>
>>
>> The only other one I can think of is "The MILL" by Jim Farrior, 
>> W4FOK (SK) who used GW Basic to produce the program, then he 
>> finally compiled it.  I was to have been given the source code 
>> but Jim passed away first.
>>
>> I have archived "The MILL" and other interesting programs, like 
>> CWcom, MorseMail, and a few others, here:
>>
>> http://archive.org/details/@djringjr/
>>
>> MILL is here: https://archive.org/details/w4fok_mill_morse_program
>>
>> It's a fun little program - it will show you what could be done 
>> with 640k of memory!
>>
>> 73
>>
>> DR
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 2:31 PM Bill Lanahan <wa2nfn at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:wa2nfn at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     I found that the practice material generated by most tutors
>>     is limited to random text, some canned word lists, or maybe
>>     a sample QSO. These were not meeting my needs to learn and
>>     build proficiency. At http://www.qsl.net/wa2nfn I have made
>>     available a tool I wrote  which gives you many options to
>>     generate practice text that maybe more helpful. You still
>>     use your existing tutor to make and send the c.w.
>>
>>     The site has a read-me explaining the features, with many
>>     examples. You only download ONE file, no local changes to
>>     your PC.
>>
>>     73
>>     Bill WA2NFN
>>     

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Richard Knoppow
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WB6KBL