[UK-CONTEST] CW Sending speed

[Dave Sergeant]

Danny

It is now called RUFZ - http://www.rufzxp.net/

73 Dave G3YMC

On 27 Nov 2009 at 23:00, Danny Higgins wrote:

> Many, many years ago I wrote a BASIC program to send random 5
> letter/number groups of CW on a PC.  You entered your target speed (e.g.
> 40 WPM) and your starting speed (e.g. 25 WPM) and it would send the
> letters at 40 WPM, but spaced to give a data rate of 25 WPM.  You typed
> the letters back in to the PC and if you got it right, the speed would
> slowly increase (i.e. the gaps between the letters would decrease).  If
> you made a mistake, the speed would stay constant and the letter you got
> wrong would be weighted so that it would appear more often.  After a
> period of error free entry the weighting would drop back again and the
> speed would continue to increase slowly.  You either got your morse up
> to your typing speed or your typing up to your morse speed.  You could
> enable the letters so that it suited the touch typing lessons.  I sent
> it to the RSGB for publication, but the response I got was "our readers
> would not be interested in typing in 3 pages of BASIC code".
> 
> I never got round to updating it for C or Java, but it should be a
> trivial task for some budding programmer.
> 
> Danny, G3XVR


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