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Jim Danehy

Make your own CW practice material

If you are somewhat familiar with some text convert it to CW. It will assist you in copying since you will be familiar with the text. Believe me it can help. It does for me.

https://lcwo.net/text2cw

Use the link above

73
Jim
W9VNE / VA3VNE
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Gwen Patton

Re: Make your own CW practice material

I used ebook2cw to convert some of Onno's "Foundations of Amateur Radio"
podcast texts to CW. He heard about my doing it on the SKCC list, and not
only did he join SKCC because of it, he followed my example and converted
his entire backlist of podcasts to CW so anyone can use them. They're all
fairly short, just a few minutes, and are just the right sort of text for
getting some good practice. But the program itself that we used is really
useful. I've converted a bunch of my favorite science fiction stories to
CW, using public domain copies from Project Gutenberg. H. Beam Piper is my
favorite for this purpose. I've got his novel "Little Fuzzy" in my
Morserino to play back in CW form, and his novella "Omnilingual" in my
phone. You do have to kind of fiddle with the text to clean out the stuff
the program doesn't know, and make sure the code for the double quote is in
the program's lookup table, since it has a lot of dialogue. Without quotes,
the dialogue is very confusing!

https://fkurz.net/ham/ebook2cw.html

73,
Gwen, NG3P

On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 2:08 PM Jim Danehy <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> If you are somewhat familiar with some text convert it to CW. It will
> assist you in copying since you will be familiar with the text. Believe me
> it can help. It does for me.
>
> https://lcwo.net/text2cw
>
> Use the link above
>
> 73
> Jim
> W9VNE / VA3VNE
> Sent from my iPhone
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Joseph Street

Re: Make your own CW practice material

KY8D has already converted tons of text and sci-fi novels to .mp3 files at various speeds and some Koch method files for beginners. Very convenient for throwing on a MP3 player. The CW portion of his website is here:

https://starling.us/free/morse/

I also have found the practice mode on the YACK keyer which you can compile for an ATTINY85 chip to be very useful. You hear a 5 character pseudo callsign and have to send it back on the paddles. If you get it wrong you hear 8 dits and the call is repeated. If you get it right you hear ditdahdit and a new psuedorandom call. Great for practicing head copy, memory, (important for us old farts) and working on your fist all at the same time.

Best regards

Joe ve3vxo

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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Make your own CW practice material

I used ebook2cw to convert some of Onno's "Foundations of Amateur Radio"
podcast texts to CW. He heard about my doing it on the SKCC list, and not
only did he join SKCC because of it, he followed my example and converted
his entire backlist of podcasts to CW so anyone can use them. They're all
fairly short, just a few minutes, and are just the right sort of text for
getting some good practice. But the program itself that we used is really
useful. I've converted a bunch of my favorite science fiction stories to
CW, using public domain copies from Project Gutenberg. H. Beam Piper is my
favorite for this purpose. I've got his novel "Little Fuzzy" in my
Morserino to play back in CW form, and his novella "Omnilingual" in my
phone. You do have to kind of fiddle with the text to clean out the stuff
the program doesn't know, and make sure the code for the double quote is in
the program's lookup table, since it has a lot of dialogue. Without quotes,
the dialogue is very confusing!

https://fkurz.net/ham/ebook2cw.html

73,
Gwen, NG3P

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EricJ-2

Re: Make your own CW practice material

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Unless you want to listen to it on an audio device there's no real reason to convert text.

I get text files from Project Gutenberg or convert kindle ebooks into txt files with Calibre, then run them with G4FON's excellent Koch software directly. That lets me change code speed, Farnsworth spacing, tone, add QRM, QSB, etc. I've read half a dozen novels that way with complete control.

http://www.g4fon.net/

It's limited to 80 wpm max, but I try to live with that.

Eric KE6US

On 12/28/2019 11:06 AM, Jim Danehy wrote:

If you are somewhat familiar with some text convert it to CW. It will assist you in copying since you will be familiar with the text. Believe me it can help. It does for me.

https://lcwo.net/text2cw

Use the link above

73
Jim
W9VNE / VA3VNE
Sent from my iPhone
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