[UK-CONTEST] CW Sending speed

[Danny Higgins]

Thanks Dave.

I'll have a closer look at it later, but it is still not as versatile as
mine.  Winding the speed up linearly does not give you the same "thinking
time" between characters to get your fingers on the right keys, and you
cannot enable the letters individually to simulate the touch typing lessons
(ASDF JKL;).  When you are in learning mode and you hear the letter "K", you
have to wait at least 1 full dot period to see if it really is a "K" or if
is going to be a "C" or a "Y", and you then have a small period left in
which to react before the next letter starts.  In my system this only
happens when your actual speed has reached your target speed.

Mine was written in GWBASIC at the end of the 70s, because that was the only
version of BASIC that I knew that had a BEEP command.  I don't believe any
copies of my original software exist.

Danny, G3XVR

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Dave Sergeant
Sent: 28 November 2009 06:15
To: uK-Contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] CW Sending speed

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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