Simplest morse key
I needed a small portable key and made one from three nails, a paperclip, a small piece of scrapwood and the cable from broken earphones. Works like a charm....
u/Chipper1685 — 1 day ago
r/morse
▲ 2 r/morse
New asking for advice
Been training on LCWO for about a week.
I got through the 40 lessons (41 numbers/letters/punctuation) at 20wpm farnsworth 5.
So now I'm going back through doing the lessons again at 30wpm (so I'm not counting dits & dahs -- just trying to absorb the overall sound and recognize it)
I'm through the first 15 lessons at 30wpm 10farnsworth (I test each one until I do a minute-long lesson at 100% and then move on)
So my question: Is this fine?
My fear is that spacing will be a major hurdle. My thinking was once I was doing all the characters at 30wpm, I will just keep increasing farnsworth speed as much as I can.
My other hurdle is... I would love to just do "head copy" but... how can you test and check random characters without writing them down?
TL:DR -- I don't want bad habits. Am I on the right track?
Any advice is welcome. Cheers!
u/PretendTooth2559 — 4 days ago
You spoke, we listened: MorseKit update based on feedback from this sub
Hey r/morsecode,
2 weeks ago I shared MorseKit here and got a lot of feedback, some warm, some critical, some pretty pointed. I took notes on all of it and wanted to come back and share the changes we shipped since then, because most of these were directly raised in that thread.
What we changed:
- Fixed audio issues. There were a few cases where the sound wasn't clean or didn't play properly, those are resolved now.
- Fixed timing. The CW timing was off in some places. We went through the generation logic and corrected the ratios across the board. Should be aligned with standard timing now.
- Visual dit/dah representation is now OFF by default. You can still turn it on as an option if you want it as a beginner aid, but the default experience is sound-only, which is what most people in this thread argued for and I think they were right.
- On ads: heads up that you'll see a small number of ads for a short while as we work through some monetization changes.
- Fixed language related errors
What's coming next:
- Receive-only lessons. Some users told us they'd rather not learn the send side by tapping on a touchscreen, which is fair. We're adding a receive only path so you can focus purely on copying.
- Updated tools section. We're refreshing the tooling part of the app, including a flashlight (light signaling) mode and a few more utilities we'll roll out gradually.
I know one update post isn't going to win over anyone who was skeptical, and that's fair. But if you gave feedback in the original thread, your input is in this version of the app. That mattered to me.
Going forward we'll be posting regular dev blogs and product updates over at r/MorseKit so we don't clutter this sub. We might still drop in here for the bigger milestones, but the day to day stuff lives over there. If you want to come hang out, drop feature requests, report bugs, or just share your streaks and progress, you're more than welcome. We'd genuinely love to have you.
You can grab the download links here:
73 ✋
u/patern0ster — 9 days ago
Any tips on how to use Morse code using tuning fork?
Expert communicators of r/morse and r/amateurradio please give me some tips on how to start. This is for my Science Project.
u/SeparateReply7552 — 8 days ago
▲ 0 r/morse
Siempre quise aprender Morse! Ahora cree una web para prender, díganme que opinan?? Morselearn.com
Apa, buenas!
Soy un chaval de 19 años del País Vasco y siempre me pareció una idea muy chula aprender Morse para comunicarme con mis amigos. Como las páginas que había no me convencían, creé la mía.
Tiene diferentes modos para aprender, hasta un chat en vivo, y funciona con el clic del ratón.
Decidme qué os parece y qué le añadiríais. Morselearn.com
u/Ok-Pick5016 — 10 days ago