Ham4CW
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I came across a website while on my lunch break at work, which seems to be a loosely similar idea to CW-COM.
http://morsecode.me/?room=1
It's split in to 'rooms' of which I think there were 6, plus a few other 'special' ones.
Usual keying using period button, or mouse left button over the "Key" legend towards the bottom of the page.
While using the Samsung laptop at work, running Linux, I found that it would also key with the space bar. Just tried it here on a Lenovo laptop running Linux and it didn't function, only the period button and mouse left button over "Key".
Just using the space bar at work I found it was excellent at reading the CW sent, but, I found that the side-tone was intermittent to non existant, or else it lags behind. I ended up turning the volume fully down and just sending by touch.
Also puzzling was the intermittent 'received' tone, it just seemed to randomly beep with no connection to what was on screen.
The initial "Room 1" seems like a free for all, with very little actually sending, as though visitors were trying to read the list of characters down the side of the screen and send from the list. The higher rooms appeared empty, or else indicated 1 or 2 other users present, but no one was sending. I did try a few QRZ's with no response.
Something I did like was that because you can use the left mouse button, then any old mouse could be modified to accept a mono socket in parallel with the left button switch, and you could then plug in a straight key to send with.
Because it was a general melee in the first room you could not really tell if the problems were due to several users all trying to 'send' at the same time, or if the script is just very buggy.
If nothing else it might be OK to use as a monitor while conducting sending practice.
I need to try it out on a Windows machine though, in case the weird effects were due to it not 'liking' Linux.
73, Mark... :w:
http://morsecode.me/?room=1
It's split in to 'rooms' of which I think there were 6, plus a few other 'special' ones.
Usual keying using period button, or mouse left button over the "Key" legend towards the bottom of the page.
While using the Samsung laptop at work, running Linux, I found that it would also key with the space bar. Just tried it here on a Lenovo laptop running Linux and it didn't function, only the period button and mouse left button over "Key".
Just using the space bar at work I found it was excellent at reading the CW sent, but, I found that the side-tone was intermittent to non existant, or else it lags behind. I ended up turning the volume fully down and just sending by touch.
Also puzzling was the intermittent 'received' tone, it just seemed to randomly beep with no connection to what was on screen.
The initial "Room 1" seems like a free for all, with very little actually sending, as though visitors were trying to read the list of characters down the side of the screen and send from the list. The higher rooms appeared empty, or else indicated 1 or 2 other users present, but no one was sending. I did try a few QRZ's with no response.
Something I did like was that because you can use the left mouse button, then any old mouse could be modified to accept a mono socket in parallel with the left button switch, and you could then plug in a straight key to send with.
Because it was a general melee in the first room you could not really tell if the problems were due to several users all trying to 'send' at the same time, or if the script is just very buggy.
If nothing else it might be OK to use as a monitor while conducting sending practice.
I need to try it out on a Windows machine though, in case the weird effects were due to it not 'liking' Linux.
73, Mark... :w: