The World’s Great Literature … in Morse Code!

You’ve most likely heard of audio books, and maybe enjoy listening to them. But what about CW books? WA4EFS has a project that can help you improve your cultural literacy and your Morse code skills at the same time!

LLOYD MILLIGAN

In this article I will attempt to give an account of my CW trainer in all its shameless excess. The “Mother of All Keyers“ (MOAK, for short; Photo A) is now capable of conversing in Morse, not in the way an advanced modern chatbot would converse, but let’s be candid, an exchange of signal reports is not exactly a fluid conversation, either! No matter, if conversation becomes too stilted, or if you need something to help you sleep, the MOAK will read to you from a book! How about a bedtime story—in Morse, of course? The earliest version of this project dates to a ham radio club meeting several years ago at which one of the members passed around an Arduino Unobased device he had made. This ‘show and tell’…

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CQ Amateur Radio (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2023

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