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

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

My friend is blind and uses the text terminal using command line, like the
DOS prompt but he's using Linux and a speech synthesizer.

73

DR

On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 16:13 Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>      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
> >>
>
> --
> Richard Knoppow
> 1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
> WB6KBL
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