For the USS Wisconsin, if they decide on a small Windows box (using something like a little BeeLink) , you might think of Morse RSS News. It will read your choice of RSS feed (some are pre-installed but you can read any RSS). Output is precise Morse, and you can include ionospheric (Rayleigh) fading and realistic static crashes. It does need an internet source for the RSS input so maybe in the Wisconsin's Comm Center it's not available. MorseNews does output Railroad Morse, and has very realistic sounder output, as well as interface for a real sounder.

For the railroad, Python, s Raspberry Pi, have a look at Morse KOB4 (MKOB4/PyKOB). It also needs internet service to talk to other stations or output news on the sounder. Excellent program and community for railroad Morse lovers.

  -- Bob

ALCON:

I am a member of a radio club that operates aboard the battleship USS Wisconsin which now is a museum (https://n4wis.org/).  We operate from two of the ship’s spaces, one has modern-day radio gear and the other has WW2-era radio gear, and for the latter we have some Cracker Jack operators that use Morse Code to make contacts.

Separately, my father is a member of a model railroad club that has an interactive telegraph display (https://avmrc.com/).  It has a Morse Code key, sounder and video display driven by a Raspberry Pi single-board computer.  More specifically, the Pi runs a Python program that decodes a Morse Code message tapped out on the straight key.  Visitors to the Club find the telegraph station a very interesting and fun activity.  See the attached photo.

I have been asked to put together a similar interactive Morse Code station aboard the Wisconsin so that our visitors -especially kids- can try their hand at sending CW.  While the railroad club’s telegraph station is a good start, I would like to take a different approach requiring us to implement our own Morse decoder program.

Yes, there are quite a number of websites and computer programs available on the Internet that I could use as a “go by” example.  I **could** pick one at random and give it a try but that would be akin to a try-and-error approach.  I would rather “crowd source” the experience and expertise of everyone in this forum for recommendations for a robust and capable Morse Code decoder program.  Most desirable would be a program written in the Python programming language so that I could easily tailor the code to our club’s desire whether that is going to be on a Windows platform or on a Raspberry Pi.

So if you would, please let me know if you have a good recommendation for a Morse Code decoder program.  I will then see what I can do to adopt the source code to make an interactive station that our visitors can try.

73s to all.

James Hull

KK4EOU

Sent from my Glade air freshener.

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