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    From John Walcot@john@johnwalcot.wanadoo.co.uk to alt.ham-radio.morse on Sun Jan 15 20:41:07 2006
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    Is there a bit of PC software out there that will allow the accuracy of
    keyed morse to be seen ?

    MorseCAT allows a key to be connected to the game port or parallel port
    and shows you, as you key, the de dah ratio and the ratios of the
    various gaps.

    But it only works with Windows 95/98.

    Anyone know of a similar program, that will give a real time picture of
    the keying for Windows 2000 or XP ?
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  • From bonomi@bonomi@host122.r-bonomni.com (Robert Bonomi) to alt.ham-radio.morse on Sun Jan 15 21:08:41 2006
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    In article <U9SdnUCjWsE0LlfeRVnyjg@pipex.net>,
    John Walcot <john@johnwalcot.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote:
    Is there a bit of PC software out there that will allow the accuracy of
    keyed morse to be seen ?

    MorseCAT allows a key to be connected to the game port or parallel port
    and shows you, as you key, the de dah ratio and the ratios of the
    various gaps.

    But it only works with Windows 95/98.

    Anyone know of a similar program, that will give a real time picture of
    the keying for Windows 2000 or XP ?

    XP has 'compatibility modes' -- where it will look like win95 or win98 to
    the application.


    install the program, right-click on the icon for the executable, select 'properties', then choose the 'compatibility' tab.

    This _may_ work.
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  • From John Walcot@john@johnwalcot.wanadoo.co.uk to alt.ham-radio.morse on Mon Jan 16 22:15:30 2006
    From Newsgroup: alt.ham-radio.morse

    install the program, right-click on the icon for the executable, select 'properties', then choose the 'compatibility' tab.

    This _may_ work.


    It does not unfortunately, Windows 2000 and XP are prevented from
    accessing the hardware directly and this must apply to emulation mopde too.

    Looks like Morsecat is polling the game port directly.
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  • From Chris W@1qazse4@cox.net to alt.ham-radio.morse on Mon Jan 23 02:35:14 2006
    From Newsgroup: alt.ham-radio.morse

    John Walcot wrote:

    Is there a bit of PC software out there that will allow the accuracy of
    keyed morse to be seen ?

    MorseCAT allows a key to be connected to the game port or parallel port
    and shows you, as you key, the de dah ratio and the ratios of the
    various gaps.

    But it only works with Windows 95/98.

    Anyone know of a similar program, that will give a real time picture
    of the keying for Windows 2000 or XP ?

    I think it would be easy enough to write a program that did that using
    some key on the keyboard or even a mouse button. If you give some
    details and it's not too complex, I might be willing to give it a try..
    --
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  • From John Walcot@john@johnwalcot.wanadoo.co.uk to alt.ham-radio.morse on Mon Jan 23 22:27:35 2006
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    > I think it would be easy enough to write a program that did that using
    some key on the keyboard or even a mouse button. If you give some
    details and it's not too complex, I might be willing to give it a try..

    There are programs that will decode morse sent from a key connected to a serial port. WSMORSE for instance does work under Win2000. However
    whilst it will tell you its guess of the character keyed, there is no immediate feedback.

    Morsecat, although it only seems to work on Win95\98, does the feedback
    bit very well. You get a ticker tape of what your keying and its guess
    of what it is at the same time. So if the character displayed is not
    what you intended, you can see from the tickertape display what might be
    wrong.

    Additionally, I dont know what analysis of the keying the likes of
    WSMORSE does, it might well be able to decode on a 1:5 di to dah ratio.

    If you learning from a PC it seems to be a very good idea to use the
    power of the PC and the immediate visual feedback it could provide get
    the 1:3 ratio right from the start.
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