[Ham-Mac] Fwd: [Elecraft] new morse trainer for Mac OS

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

Forwarding this to this reflector, in case it hasn't made it here yet.
I've given it a quick try - does what it says on the tin :-)

--  
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you  
get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -Socrates

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "john shadle" <shadle at katzenfisch.com>
> Date: 26 September 2008 21:10:40 BST
> To: qrp-l at mailman.qth.net, qrp-l at qrp-l.org,  
> elecraft at mailman.qth.net, AT_Sprint at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Elecraft] new morse trainer for Mac OS
>
> Just wanted to give a heads up to those of you who use Mac OS (or  
> know of
> folks who use Mac OS) about a new Morse Code learning device which is
> available for Mac OS.
>
> This program is called the AD5RX Morse Trainer and it may be  
> downloaded
> *free* from the Source Forge site:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/morsetrainer/
>
> Jonathan Nall, AD5RX, is a ham who lives out in 6-land these days.  
> By day
> he works in the tech biz doing hardware verification, but he really  
> enjoys
> tinkering around with other things in his spare time. In this case,  
> he's
> offering a G4FON-like program for Mac users. It has quite a bit of
> functionality of the G4FON program (QRM, QSB, effective speed and  
> actual
> speed settings, etc.). In addition to those basic features, it  
> offers the
> ability to set the number of stations QRMing and the ability of the
> program to read the code back to you (in English) to check your  
> written
> (or typed) transcription.
>
> The motivation behind developing this program (which he has poured  
> many
> hours into) is to provide a quality, free Morse Code-learning  
> program to
> Mac users who have been limited to pay-only or inferior programs in  
> the
> past.
>
> The program will always remain free, but since the program is still  
> in its
> infancy he is requesting that Mac hams download it and try it out.  
> Please
> email all comments to ad5rx at arrl.net. He is specifically looking for
> comments related to the UI and the speech function (mentioned above).
>
> My interest in this is only that AD5RX is a friend of mine from  
> college
> who happens to not subscribe to this list. That's all. I had nothing  
> to do
> with the development of the program, personally.
>
> 73
> -john W4PAH
>