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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