You can generate audio files with Just Learn Morse Code.

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LB3KB Sigurd
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You may want to send your callsign correctly, too.

Don't worry, I'm not offended.  I am pointing out that Just Learn Morse Code offers a lot more than random letter groups and a lot more than a static file library, in response to messages that imply the opposite.


I agree that copying real QSOs is a good way to get used to copying real QSOs, and it gives you real experience with real conditions.


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LB3KB Sigurd
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Once again, you imply that Just Learn Morse Code only offers random letter groups.  This is what I responded with the last time I noticed such a claim from you:

I'm not following you.  Just Learn Morse Code has many options for generating random words, abbreviations and also anything you could manage to put on a separate line in a text file.

There are options for having it send random lines of text, or a whole book if you want to.

You can paste text copied from any other program and have Morse code generated for it without having it in a file.

There are options for "recording" any and all of this to audio files, and you can have a transcript generated as a text file if you want to.

This is a lot more versatile than anything you can get from somebody else's static file collection.  You can adjust any of a number of settings to suit your preferences.


There is also a help file included, that briefly explains how to use most of the options.  Select Contents in the Help menu to see it.


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LB3KB Sigurd
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I'm not following you.  Just Learn Morse Code has many options for generating random words, abbreviations and also anything you could manage to put on a separate line in a text file.

There are options for having it send random lines of text, or a whole book if you want to.

You can paste text copied from any other program and have Morse code generated for it without having it in a file.

There are options for "recording" any and all of this to audio files, and you can have a transcript generated as a text file if you want to.

This is a lot more versatile than anything you can get from somebody else's static file collection.  You can adjust any of a number of settings to suit your preferences.


There is also a help file included, that briefly explains how to use most of the options.  Select Contents in the Help menu to see it.


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LB3KB Sigurd
justlearnmorsecode.com

You have to learn the characters before you can send them.  Once you know the characters, both sending and receiving will reinforce your skills.  And practicing sending is a must.  Too many of us went on the air with great receiving skills and messed up utterly because we didn't know how to properly send at speed.

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LB3KB Sigurd
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That's just stupid, Tom.

If you applied Koch to playing the guitar, you would learn one note or chord at a time at the speed you want to play it at.  Whenever you could hit that one note or chord most of the time, you would add another one.

While that may not make you a rock star, it sure would make you a better guitarist than just sitting around bitching about it.


LB3KB Sigurd
justlearnmorsecode.com

That is correct, it is intentionally done that way.  You have to draw the line somewhere, so why not at 100 ?
The target audience is highly unlikely to ever want to copy more than 8 characters per second.



I'm quite sure that if DJ1YFK wants me to improve Just Learn Morse Code for his use, he will send me an email.



Creation of MP3 files is patented.  I do not steal other people's intellectual property.
At $5 or more per user, paying for it is not an option for software that is given away for free, either.

There is plenty of software that will convert your audio files between various formats with minimal user effort.  Surely a smart guy like you can manage to do that ?



Maybe he's rich.



The LAME encoder is there to shift the responsibility for stealing to the end users.  I think facilitating theft is wrong.



Nope.  The sound generation is a result of research and conscious choice.  The waveform looks exactly like intended.



When somebody acts like you do in here, without revealing who he is, he is a coward and he is anonymous.

I am well aware of how the audio generation works in Just Learn Morse Code, at any speed.

If your concern is how it works with unrealisticly high pitched audio generated at 100 WPM played back at 35 WPM then perhaps you should have said so at the start, rather than going on this wild goose chase.

I do listen to feedback and I do modify the program according to that feedback.  That doesn't mean I incorporate every suggestion I come across, but I have implemented quite a few of them.  It could also be that I would modify the behavior of the software for that tiny group of users that are interested in using it at ridiculous speeds, but I would only consider that after hearing from some of them.

In general, that does not include what anonymous cowards artificially construct and throw out in public on the Internet, though.

Who in their right mind would want to see Morse code ?

Once again - What do your ears tell you ?


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LB3KB Sigurd
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What do your ears tell you ?


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LB3KB Sigurd
justlearnmorsecode.com

Your thinking is too complicated.

Did you ever look at what your transmitter's keyer does ?


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LB3KB Sigurd
justlearnmorsecode.com

That's very interesting, Tom.  There is merit to that system after all, then. ;o)

One interpretation would be that Koch as well as the traditional systems are not for everybody.  Maybe a small percentage of people actually do better with soundalikes etc.

I don't think it's fair to blame your initial failure on Koch, though.  It seems likely that you would have had an even harder time using the traditional visual methods.

Struggling with sending after learning to receive seems to be universal - it takes practice to get good at it and most people only practice sending on the air.  It goes without saying that it feels worse messing up sending if you're on the air.


I'm glad you found a system that worked for you.  Persistence pays off, and so does flexibility.  Congratulations!


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LB3KB Sigurd
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The same would apply to any method for learning Morse code, and thus it has nothing to do with the quality of Koch's method.


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LB3KB Sigurd
justlearnmorsecode.com

Like what ?

I'm not saying other methods don't work, in fact Just Learn Morse Code supports many other methods.  I'm just curious as to what methods actually work for somebody who failed with Koch's method.


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LB3KB Sigurd
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