[Ham-Linux] Morse Code

[Steve Tell]

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, KC2MGB wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a good linux program for learning the code? 

I've found two that I'm just starting to try to use to supplement 
a cassette-based code course. I haven't quite figured out how best to use 
them for learning and practice, but my impressions so far:

unixcw-2.2, by Simon Baldwin, G0FRD
	includes curses, X, and command-line tools
	includes a random-letter generator, cwgen
	OSS output has harsh "key-clicks"
	Good documentation in the README and manpages
	built around a library, libcw, that can be used to key an external
	transmitter or whatever
morse, by Joe Dellinger WH6UR and others
	command-line-only, but generally seems more sophisicated internally
	better-sounding clean tones
	includes a random QSO-generator, "QSO"
	minimal but adaquate documentation

Both available from ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/ham/morse

In addition to these, I've cobbled up a short perl script to extract
random word from /usr/share/dict/words that contain only the letters I've
learned so far and are shorter than 6 characters.  The output can be fed 
to either morse or unixcw.


Steve
KF4ZPF