MorseTest

The app is well-made with frequency, WPM and even some “noise” (more realistic). However, I cannot set the alphabet on my iPhone. I can slide how many characters I want, but if I want to practice only numbers or only special characters, I have not found a way to enter the desired set. It would be even better if I could make sections with alphabets (say 10 groups only letters, 5 groups only numbers and 5 groups numbers and special characters) for a test run.

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.

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.