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- Morse Tutor Version 1.4
- By John R. Newgas
- N2UYI / G7LTQ
- 11th June 1997
-
- <C> 1997 John Newgas
-
- Full Freeware rights granted for Private or Personal Use
- This program may be distributed on Bulletin Boards, CD-ROM compilations
- and other media so long as no charge is made for the program itself and
- this document is included with it.
-
- Email to jnewgas@cix.compulink.co.uk
-
- This program was written to help me gain my Amateur Radio Morse
- Qualification to improve my license type.
-
- It is written to work with cbasPad version 0.68 which is a BASIC language
- interpreter for the USR Robotics Pilot. The inspiration was noticing
- that cbasPad had a morse function built in making this program easy to
- write. cbasPad is written by R. Nicholson and is obtainable on the
- world wide web at http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/pilot.html
-
- I am not a good basic programmer and have not touched the language
- since I had a TRS-80 in the early days of microcomputing some 20 years ago.
-
- I would welcome improvements emailed to me. This is the first attempt
- and has been written with a view to expanding it.
-
- The lines starting at 900 contain the defaults that the program will offer
- in the dialog box.
-
- Line 228 is the low battery level warning value ( 1/100 volt units )
- I would suggest that 220 is the lowest this should be changed.
-
- The Program sends the characters at one speed ( Char Speed ), but uses
- another speed ( Farnsworth ) for increasing the gap between characters.
- This is called the Farnsworth Learning method. The idea is to set the
- character speed at say 15 wpm (words per minute) but have a Farnsworth
- speed of perhaps 9 wpm. This will give you more thinking time between
- characters, but still give your the correct character speed and
- characteristic sound for your brain to learn.
-
-
- The option for Numbers is 0 for Text only and 1 for Numbers only
-
- The number of words/block refers to the number of 5 symbol words that
- will be sent out before the program stops and displays the text for you
- to check.
-
- This was written as a substitute for buying a morse tutor to carry with
- me on business trips etc. Good luck on your morse
-
- 73's de John G7LTQ / N2UYI
- London, England
-
- Revision History
- v 0.0 17th January 1997 Working but no dialog box for parameter variation
-
- v 1.0 23rd January 1997 Release version, Dialogs with default parameters
- now incorporated
-
- v 1.1 9th February 1997 Parameter Dialog improved to allow clean exit
- Text file enlarged to explain Farnsworth method
-
- v 1.2 28th February 1997 Random function increased by 1 as tutor failed
- to produce Z or 9. (Thanks to D.Fifield KQ6FR)
-
- v 1.3 18th March 1997 Cancel response from Dialog Box showing Morse
- Text now ends the program. This takes advantage
- of changes to cbasPad implemented in v 0.64
-
- v 1.4 11th June 1997 Inserted option for integer numbers for
- compatibility with floating point basic
- Added low battery voltage message so as to
- ensure Pilot memory integrity
-