{"id":50,"date":"2016-03-29T08:20:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T13:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kg5jbe.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2016-03-29T08:20:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T13:20:04","slug":"starting-cw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kg5jbe.com\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Starting CW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the stated purpose of my blog is low-cost\/homebrew, I&#8217;ve found that a lot of simple and cheap projects are expressly for CW. Voice is a lot more complex for homebrew. So, I&#8217;ve had growing interest in learning morse code, but I haven&#8217;t found a good training program for Linux. Aldo seg faults. GtkMMorse seems like it may be good, but I didn&#8217;t feel like it was as clear as it could be. I was reading the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kb6nu.com\/a-dialogue-with-a-reader\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Dialogue with a Reader<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kb6nu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KB6NU&#8217;s Ham Radio Blog<\/a> and his reader mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/lcwo.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LCWO.net<\/a> as his resource for learning CW. This was the aha! moment that I needed.<\/p>\n<p>LCWO.net a very configurable web app that allows you to adjust not only the keying speed, but also the spacing. This is very helpful for a beginner. It can be difficult to here the separation between characters at first, and, at least with me, there is a delay in my recall of the letter. This pause compensates for that delay so I don&#8217;t miss letters and start to freak out and miss more letters.<\/p>\n<p>On my Android devices, I use an app call Morse Mentor. It is free and a lot of the same features as LCWO, but I can use it on the go with or without Internet access.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the stated purpose of my blog is low-cost\/homebrew, I&#8217;ve found that a lot of simple and cheap projects are expressly for CW. Voice is a lot more complex for homebrew. So, I&#8217;ve had growing interest in learning morse code, but I haven&#8217;t found a good training program for Linux. Aldo seg faults. GtkMMorse seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kg5jbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kg5jbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kg5jbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kg5jbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kg5jbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kg5jbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kg5jbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kg5jbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kg5jbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}