[Ham-Linux] Morse Code

Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:16:25 -0600

Hi all,

I used Code Quick along with a MFJ device designed to transmit ...'s
and -----'s.  They now have one that also reads code from radio audio.  Once
I got time to pay attention to it and concentrate on the program
consistently, it worked very fast.  I tried several DOS and Windows programs
and just didn't work for me.  Too many distractions and not mobile to get
away from those distractions.  Send a note to the group about your success
with whatever you try.  I'd be interested since I'm likely to be asked for
advice by new guys locally in the next few months.

73's

B. B. Stanfield III
KC5PIY

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Steve Tell
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 9:21 PM
To: KC2MGB
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Ham-Linux] Morse Code

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

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