[CW] Ray G4FON (SK) Downloads

Tue Sep 21 12:27:00 EDT 2021

Good news, Bill, excellent news by the way

I found the latest versions of all of Ray's programs!

His archive page in my http://tiny.cc/n1ea Morse Code archive has been
updated!

https://archive.org/details/G4FONKochMorseTrainerInstall

It should be all there!  Everything!

73
DR

On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 10:49 AM Bill Lanahan <wa2nfn at gmail.com> wrote:

> More on G4FON
>
> Ray was not charging for version 10, but his web page required you to give
> your call sign to get the download. It appears that that backend mechanism
> is NOT working anymore.
>
> If anyone is lucky enough to still have the zip file in their download
> directory you should give it to David or this great work will not be
> available to any new users.
>
> Now there MAYBE so hope....
>
> I have most likely the only copy of 10.9.1 because I was Ray's tester for
> the last year or so.
> There is good and bad news here.
>
>  Bad news I do not have the zip or the installer - very unfortunate.
>
> Good news, is that I don't believe there were any directory changes after
> 10.7.29 or certainly in 10.8.1.
> I am NOT a windose guru, but a quick look at the registry files and I did
> not see anything tied to a release number or anything that looked new. So
> if somebody is a windose/zip guru and you want to experiment, I can make
> available the latest exe and 2 uninstall files. Its possible, that if you
> have one of the two mentioned releases above, you might be able to manually
> slide in the new exe (after a backup of course). If that works a some zip
> install could be made (not all the bells and whistles of a real install
> with making a shortcut etc.).
>
> I do NOT have a list of changes from 10.8.1 to 10.9.1, because Ray just
> gave me incrementals on the fly.
>
> I can't try this experiment since I do not have an old version.
>
> LMK if interested.
>
> 73 wa2nfn - Bill
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 7:43 AM Bill Lanahan <wa2nfn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Note that prosigns in input must be in format like; ^bt NOT <bt>.
>>
>> Also getting the send and echo feature working can require a bit of
>> frustration with the levels in windoze set right. Ray the sidetone of his
>> rig into headphones and then placed the headphones opened near the PC
>> microphone enabling both him and the app to hear input. This a few other
>> things were being worked on for a delivery when he passed.
>>
>> The receive side features are great. There is a bug in what is displayed
>> but it’s minor
>>
>> For the send side, I would highly recommend DJ7HS’s Precision CW
>> Fistcheck - it’s current version is much further along the Rays (less the
>> echo feature) and an enhancement should be delivered soon.
>>
>> His Tutor, for receiving is solid and very intuitive for learning and
>> practice, but if you want the wide range of on air impairments (qsb, qrn,
>> bad fist …) you will also want G4FON on your desktop.
>>
>> 73 wa2nfn
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> > On Sep 21, 2021, at 12:38 AM, Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >    The G4FON program is excellent. It will also send any TXT file as
>> CW. You can copy TXT files form the W1AW web site and G4FON will send them
>> at any choice of speed and tone.
>> >
>> >> On 9/20/2021 9:04 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
>> >> Ray G4FON allowed me to add his website and CW Trainer to my Morse
>> Archive hosted at http://tiny.cc/n1ea/ <http://tiny.cc/n1ea/> (shortcut
>> to archive.org <http://archive.org>).
>> >> G4FON's Koch CW Trainer Version 9 is available for download here; :
>> https://archive.org/download/G4FONKochMorseTrainerInstall/KochMorseTrainer%20Install.exe
>> <
>> https://archive.org/download/G4FONKochMorseTrainerInstall/KochMorseTrainer%20Install.exe
>> >
>> >> G4FON's last available website, August 31, 2021 is here:
>> https://web.archive.org/web/20210831153256/http://www.g4fon.net/ <
>> https://web.archive.org/web/20210831153256/http://www.g4fon.net/>
>> >> G4FON Koch CW Trainer Version 10 is available here:
>> https://web.archive.org/web/20210103101202fw_/http://www.g4fon.net/CW%20Trainer2.php#Download
>> <
>> https://web.archive.org/web/20210103101202fw_/http://www.g4fon.net/CW%20Trainer2.php#Download
>> >
>> >> G4FON Contest CW Trainer Version 3 is avalable here:
>> https://web.archive.org/web/20210812052905fw_/https://g4fon.net/Contest_Trainer_V3.php
>> <
>> https://web.archive.org/web/20210812052905fw_/https://g4fon.net/Contest_Trainer_V3.php
>> >
>> >> I don't believe that Version 10 can be downloaded as Ray was requiring
>> payment for this excellent program, however he allowed me to post the
>> previous version, Version 9, which can be downloaded for no cost..
>> >> 73
>> >> David N1EA
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