Comments, suggestions, problems?
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Useful features:
1. Save your choices:
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Your chosen Edition date, text, speed, Farnsworth speed, tone frequency and background-noise form part of the web page address.
So you can bookmark the page to automatically load those settings next time you open the page.
You could also share the address with a friend or group, perhaps for your club's weekly group Morse training excercises.
2. News, random callsigns & 5 character groups
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I add new texts each Friday evening, but this may be delayed until the weekend.
3. Farnsworth timing
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You can select your own character speed and separate overall text speed. This is commonly known as the Farnsworth method of sending characters, as an aid to learning to recognise the overall 'shape' of characters rather than their individual dot and dash elements.
I read the RSGB's GB2RS News Bulletin on 3650kHz AM on Sunday mornings at 08:00 UK time.
I thought it would be useful to also broadcast the news in Morse, for Morse fans & people who want to learn or practice Morse.
But, I soon realised that was impractical.
I'd need to repeat the transmission at various speeds, to suit people's preferences.
Only people within my transmission range could hear it and if the were in-range, but missed the broadcast, they'd have to wait a whole week for the next one.
To overcome those limitations, I developed this script to let you listen to near-life-like Morse 'transmissions' of GB2RS on demand.
I update the texts each week with new content from GB2RS and with fresh random letter and number groupings.
You can repeat them as often as you want, whenever you want, wherever you are, at whatever speed suits you, and under various band conditions which you can control.
You can also re-play previous weeks' editions, so there's an enormous library of material to choose from.
If you find this Morse player useful, please let others know about it. And if there's something you don't like about it, or if you have a suggestion for an improvement or new feature, please let me know.