When I returned to Amateur Radio my CW was decidedly rusty. What I felt I needed was a CW Trainer to get my speed back. I looked around the Web and found an article by Dave Finley N1IRZ on a method of CW training developed by a German psychologist called Ludwig Koch back in the 1930's. This trainer is a small personal project designed to play with learning morse code through the Farnsworth method. The main difference between this trainer and others is that I am experimenting with visual reinforcement by displaying the character currently being sent.
Choose your desired code speed Generate 1 2 3 4 5 group of code sent at 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 15 18 20 22 25 27 30 32 35 37 40 45 50 wpm using character speed of. Mar 22, 2020 Now click on 'Record Text File' in the 'Files' menu of the Morse Trainer and a window should open as in the image below: Finally either drag the text file of the book onto the popup window or use the File button and browse to it. You should see the window turn red and the progress bar move steadily across the window as the Audio Book is created. Choose your desired code speed Generate 1 2 3 4 5 group of code sent at 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 15 18 20 22 25 27 30 32 35 37 40 45 50 wpm using character speed of.
Learn morse code with Morse Trainer
Now with Farnsworth speed and Koch method
If you are a ham radio (amateur radio) operator or just want to learn morse code.
With a lot of settings it is very comfortable to adjust Morse Trainer to your current level.
G4fon Koch Method Morse Trainer
The following settings are available:
- Random groups of five mode: Morse Trainer will play groups of five randomly selected letter, numbers or special characters. Those characters can be individually selected. If you want to learn just “s”,”i” and “e” just select the 3 letters and Morse Trainer will create groups of 5 with those 3 letters.
- Real ham radio callsign mode: Morse Trainer will randomly play real amateur radio callsign from a database of 5000 callsigns which appeared in Contests over the last couple of years.
- QSO text mode: Morse Trainer will play randomly play QSO text. The database consists of 300 different qso texts.
- Most common English words mode: Morse Trainer will play randomly the 500 most used English words.
- Own text mode: Enter your own text and Morse Trainer will play it over and over again.
- Ebook mode: Text files can be loaded from SD card
Improve your cw speed away from your radio or computer
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With a lots of settings you can set Morse Trainer to your current experience level
Morse Trainer Windows
- Frequency (200 – 2200Hz
- Waveform (sine / triangle)
- Fading (to reduce click at the end of a dot or dash)
- Speed (2Wpm – 52Wpm)
- Spacing (spacing between dots or dashes)
- Dot-Dash Ratio (length ratio of dashes compared to dots)
- Letter Spacing (Space between letters)
- Word Spacing (Space between words)
Morse Trainer is priced less than the cost of a fancy coffee and it is a great app to learn and improve you CW speed away from your amateur radio station or your PC.