Morse Mania OSX 3.2.0

Morse Mania is a teaching tool that helps anyone that's interested in learning Morse Code understand how to communicate with another person using the code.

Developer:   Black Cat Systems       more software by author → Price:  19.00  buy → License:   Shareware File size:   404K Language:    OS:    Rating:   0 /5 (0 votes) Your vote:   enlarge screenshot

Morse Mania is a teaching tool that helps anyone that's interested in learning Morse Code understand how to communicate with another person using the code.

The software packagehelps you learn morse code at speeds ranging from 5 to 30 words per minute.

Morse Mania is ideal for amateur (ham) radio operators who desire to learnor improve their morse code proficiency, especially in order to upgrade their license class. In addition to drills to help learn the various characters, Morse Mania also allows complete text files to be sent, so that "real life" messages can be used for practice. Koch mode is available, which is generally considered the quickest way to learn morse code. It also supports the Farnsworth mode, which increases the speed of the dots and dashes, and lengthens the pause between letters sent, allowing the student to learn morse code at higher speeds more easily.

Morse Mania provides the following three modules to help you learn morse code:

* Learn Characters - Each morse code character is displayed on the screen as it is being played. This is useful when you're first learning the morse code alphabet, as it helps you link each sound to the corresponding character.

* Guess a Character - Morse code characters are played, and you must type the key of the character sent. At the end of the exercise, your score is displayed.

* Copy Groups - Random five letter morse code character groups are sent (and displayed on the screen). You select how many morse code groups you would like to have sent, and practice by copying the groups down. At the end of the exercise, compare what you copied to what was actually sent.
* Copy Groups - Random words are sent (and displayed on the screen). You select how many words you would like to have sent, and practice by copying them down. At the end of the exercise, compare what you copied to what was actually sent.

It also supports Farnsworth mode. Farnsworth is useful when first learning morse code, so you don't reach the "plateau" around 7 wpm, where you can't copy any faster, because you learned the individual dots and dashes that make up each character, rather than the overall sound. In Farnsworth mode, each character is sent at a high speed, but with a long pause between characters. Hence, you hear the character as it sounds, and don't try to learn the individual dots and dashes that make it up. The long pause gives you time to think about what you just heard, and identify the character, before the next one comes along.

Finally, the Koch method is also available. Using this method, you learn morse code at full speed, one letter at a time. It's considered by many to be the best way to learn morse code quickly and effectively.

Koch mode is generall recognized at the quickest way to learn full speed CW. Koch himself was able to teach a group of students to copy CW at 20 wpm in just a little over 13 hours total time.

Here's a brief description of the Koch method: You start off by learning just two letters, at full speed (15 or 20 wpm). Then after achieving 90% or better sucess in copying them, you add another letter. You keep doing this, until you have mastered all of the characters.

As with Farnsworth, you hear the characters at full speed. The idea behind Koch mode is that you learn each character one at a time, and don't move on until you've fully mastered that character. You can learn at your own pace, and you get continuous immediate positive feedback as you learn each character. After you learn the first one or two characters, you realize that you indeed can copy CW at high speeds, and never hit the speed plateau that you otherwise would with traditional methods of learning CW.

It is important that you only select one new character to learn at a time, and that you don't move on to another new character until you're getting accurate copy of all of the current characters. Some characters will take longer to learn than others, that's normal.

Morse Mania can also produce morse code from a text file, which is then also played out of your computer's speaker. So you can create your own practice sessions, or grab text from other sources such as newspapers/etc, to have a never ending supply of practice material.

There is also a Typing Window, where you can type any valid character at the keyboard, and it is immediately translated into the morse code character, and played.

Limitations:

Nag Screen

11 days trial.

What's New:

Fixed a bug with the Send File and Send QSO exercises.

Reduced the amount of CPU time used.
tags morse code  learn morse  you learn  morse mania  that you  you can  full speed  each character  sent and  until you  koch mode  the character  the exercise  

Download Morse Mania OSX 3.2.0

 http://www.blackcatsystems.com/download/MorseManiaOSX.dmg
 http://www.blackcatsystems.com/download/MorseMania.sit

Purchase:  

Authors software

Black Cat CW Keyer 1.0.1 (by Black Cat Systems) Black Cat CW Keyer lets you send morse code from your computer.

Elmer 6.0 (by Black Cat Systems) Elmer creates sample tests to help you prepare for your ham radio writtenexamination.

Mac Grayliner 2.2 (by Black Cat Systems) Mac Grayliner displays a map of the entire Earth, showing day, night, andmore importantly, the terminator between day and night.

DX ToolBox 2.7.3 (by Black Cat Systems) DX Toolbox searches the web for you, gathering information on solar and geomagnetic conditionsthat affect radio propagation.

Multimode 5.8.0 (by Black Cat Systems) MultiMode is an application which allows your Macintosh to decode several different modes of non-voice communication often heard on shortwave It allows you to decode and display morse code, RTTY, fax, and many other modes on your Mac, without any extra hardware!MultiMode features sophisticated di

Similar software

Morse Mania OSX 3.2.0 (by Black Cat Systems) Morse Mania is a teaching tool that helps anyone that's interested in learning Morse Code understand how to communicate with another person using the code.

nsMorseTutor 1.1 (by nsObject.com) nsMorseTutor is a simple morse code trainer for Mac OS X 10.

Morse Code Translator 1.9 (by CHCH.cc) This Mose Code Translator converts text to morse code and vice versa.

Black Cat CW Keyer 1.0.1 (by Black Cat Systems) Black Cat CW Keyer lets you send morse code from your computer.

eMorse 1.0 (by Marco Rotatori) eMorse is a small application that converts text to morse code and vice-versa.

Lexicon 1.1 (by Like Thought) Introducing a new way to learn languages.

MyChineseFlashCards 1.6 (by I-Tang HIU) MyChineseFlashCards is an open source software for viewing, hearing and learning the 1 most used chinese characters.

Multimode 5.8.0 (by Black Cat Systems) MultiMode is an application which allows your Macintosh to decode several different modes of non-voice communication often heard on shortwave It allows you to decode and display morse code, RTTY, fax, and many other modes on your Mac, without any extra hardware!MultiMode features sophisticated di

HTML Character Converter 1.3.1 (by KavaSoft) HTML Character Converter allows you to encode special characters into HTML.

Transform 0.9.11 (by Markus Winter) I find Excel to be brilliant for making pretty sequences and sequence alignments - however each character needs to be in a separate cell.

Other software in this category

Headmaster Canny 1.1.1 (by Heikki Ohvo) Headmaster Canny creates a weekly timetable based on the information about courses, teachers and classrooms given to the program.

Gradekeeper 5.9 (by Daniel Ethier) Gradekeeper is as easy to use as your paper gradebook.

Forward Chainer 1.0 (by SuperMagnus Software) Forward Chainer is a simple program which can work through small examples to demonstrate the concept of forward chaining.

Aiya! 1.0 (by Joseph Williamson) Aiya! is a brand new flashcard software that will help you learn the Chinese Zhuyin alphabet in a fun and easy way.

MacSword 1.2.1b (by MacSword) MacSword is a free & open-source application for research and study of God and His Word.