MorseTest

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.

D.QNThu, Feb 3, 2011

United States

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.

WaslookingatthisSat, Sep 18, 2010

United States

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.

Bumper314Sun, Aug 23, 2009

United States

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.

Ki6HMon, Apr 13, 2009

United States

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.

WT9TMon, Feb 16, 2009

United States

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.

AD4JTue, Feb 10, 2009

United States

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.

KG4WMTMon, Jan 5, 2009

United States