MorseTest
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | $1.99 | Ronald Nicholson | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Other Morse Code applications by HotPaw Productions in the App Store include MorseDecoder, MorseKey, and Text2Morse.
Reviews
Most excellent!
Happy Mapper
I have been waiting to see how long it was going to take someone to publish a manual morse trainer. Just getting started, so there could be a bug somewhere but so far it is well designed and gives you a good deal of control on setting parameters. It is ironic to be learning MM on such a well designed Internet device - but MM still has it's place for reliable comms. A wonderful trainer for the youngsters who may be interested in learning MM - it certainly takes the pain away.
Great start!
KT2T
This is a great start, and I will happily bump to five stars if the developer would address a couple issues. 1. The sliders in settings aren't very precise. I can't set the tone to 600 Hz no matter how hard I try. 2. While listening to the code, it sounds like the gap between characters is a little short, but maybe that's just my ears. 3. Maybe make a settings page just for the letters/numbers/etc. so that I can completely customize to exactly what I need to practice using a checkbox per letter/digit/etc. Overall, good job and I look forward to your updates. Thanks!
Good App
KC0VKN
Good application; thank you! Would like to see the ability to import a wordlist or something with real words rather than letter groups. Spend lots of my time practicing head copy on full words using generated MP3's; would be great if I could do this with MorseTest.
Very good, but could be great
KG4WMT
Very nice app that turns a device I always have with me into a code trainer. The author should take a look at the January 2009 QST magazine for insights into how to train using groupings of the most frequently used letter combination and words. The ability to send combination of letters - rather than just random groupings - would make this a truly great app.
Good Start
AD4J
This is a great idea and the closest I've seen to what I want in a morse code practice program on iPhone. However, there are several bugs and annoyances. For example, the program sometimes starts sending and cannot be stopped with the stop button. In this state the sound is sporadic or non-existent. The Settings sliders are sometimes hard to activate. With some speed settings, the characters are run together. All of these things can be fixed and I look forward to the updates. One minor wish is for the characters to appear (in Show mode) right after each is sent, rather than before. That fits how one would write, type, or visual the characters.
Very good so far
WT9T
This app will be very helpful in getting my skills back. However, at higher speeds, if you try to copy individual letters without being able to hear common digraphs, trigraphs, and words, you'll hit a big wall. Gordon Brown's tapes didn't teach that way for the 20 WPM test. I don't think it's going too far to say that random letters, at higher speeds, are limiting. Don't get me wrong -- this is a very useful app, and I think it deserves four stars. The author should look up the "Dissociated Press" novelty text generator. He can take a bunch of text from QST, or from typical QSOs, to build a table of which letters, probabilistically, follow single letters or pairs. "Playing back" the latter can generate very plausible, but random, text, with the "right" numbers of "th"es and the like. If he can work that in, this program would deserve six stars, and $3.99.
The only serious CW trainer for iPhone
Ki6H
Solid 599 for this portable, customizable CW trainer. Great for turning down time into practice sessions, I like to use it on airplanes especially. This has been one of the tools that helped get me from 5 to 20 WPM in spite of the sunspot drought! As a ham, it's one of my favorite iPhone apps.
Pattern becomes predictable
Bumper314
Once you learn all the characters, the "random" group of 5 letters becomes predictable and repetative. This can give you a false sense of accomplishment.
Great trainer
Waslookingatthis
This app teaches morse code the correct way, by sound only. All the other apps I found show the characters visually, which will mess you up when you try to go faster than a few words per minute.
Good, but needs updating KA0HEZ
D.QN
Repetitive patterns. Having 26 letters available, it was the same exact groupings four out of five times; A checkbox system for characters including prosigns; The WPM slider is very sensitive, although I've not had any problems with the frequency slider; It would be nice to be able to select the number (or time) of practice groups, should one wish either more or less than the 20 groups. For myself, getting back into CW after a 30 year break, this is a very handy app. I think it could be a "good" app instead of just "good enough" if some changes were made. The lack of true randomness is the worst part, in my opinion.
