[CW] "The Ham Whisperer" Morse Code Course

[Bill Lanahan]

G4FON is s great tool. Those files or the ARRL text files, as well as many others can be played on LCWO.net or in Precision CW Tutor with the advantage that you can then pick ANY speed snd tone you like.  LCWO also will let you make an MP3. 

All above are free. 

73 Wa2nfn

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> On Nov 17, 2021, at 4:55 PM, Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
>    The best I've found is the G4FON program. This has come built in text files but will also read any text file as code. The other good source is the ARRL W1AW site. This has speeds to 40WPM, files are MP3 and also text. I sometimes save the text files for use with the G4FON application. I am not a natural code person. I have been working on it for 60 years. My goal is to be able to read by ear at 40WPM or faster. I can sometimes do it. Can write it as fast as I can write and have worked a little on typing. I have damaged hearing which doesn't help at all. It takes constant practice but be careful of becoming fatigued. OTOH, I have a good fist on both straight keys and bugs up to maybe 40WPM which is where my arthritis makes itself felt. Never had trouble sending but receiving is another matter. These days its not difficult to find all sorts of sources of code for reading, when I started one had to listen off air and most of the sources, like commercial maritime stations, were much too fast.
>    Just keep at it. When you feel tired stop. Can help to stop for a few days and then come back to it.
>    Reading actual code off the air with noise, QRM, bad fists, is different. You need that too. The idea, of course, is to be able to communicate with people including those who don't send very well. I have never found any magic, just keep it up.
> 
>> On 11/17/2021 1:23 PM, N4JO wrote:
>> This site was helpful in learning the characters, but what I (and presumably others) need now is reading practice: specifically words. I've had to resort to building my own text files with words repeated a specific number of times (100 most frequently used x 10, x 5, x 4, x 3, etc). I start off with the high repeat count then  go down to lesser repeat counts as I get better and better at identifying the word. It would be really nice to have an app for my phone that uses the Pimsleur language Method, which introduces you to words, then in the course of introducing new words it repeats the older words with decreasing frequency to encourage retention. I have a phone app that plays my text files with programmable speed and Farnsworth delay, but it's a challenge to produce the files. It would be nice to have an app that manages repeat frequency automatically.
>> Julian, n4jo.
>>> On 11/17/2021 3:13 PM, David J. J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
>>> Andy, KE4GKP has put together a nice Morse code course on his "The Ham Whisperer" web site.
>>> 
>>> http://www.hamwhisperer.com/p/morse-code-course.html
>>> 
>>> He also has license theory practice courses - expired sylabi - but nevertheless still quite useful.
>>> 
>>> 73
>>> DR
>>> 
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