Morse Training App

A webbased game and podcast focused on learning to "head copy" morse code.

News Headlines in Morse Code Podcast

This podcast is released twice a day and includes the latest news headlines, delivered in Morse Code at the selected speed (Listen to an example).

• 10 WPM RSS / iTunes
• 15 WPM RSS / iTunes
• 20 WPM RSS / iTunes
• 25 WPM RSS / iTunes
• 30 WPM RSS / iTunes
• 35 WPM RSS / iTunes

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Credits

Most of the credit goes to Stephen C. Phillips for his excellent Morse Pro library which I use to create the mp3 files for the headlines. Credit also goes to Kurt Zoglmann who open sourced Morse Code Ninja where I was able to get great word/callsign/training lists from.

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Headcopy Mobile Game

Goals

• Should be optimized for mobile users
  • No keyboard entry, multiple choice
  • Should work on a variety of devices and mobile browsers
  • Ideally should not require an application to be installed
  • No signup or login, user can get started immediately
• Should encourage headcopy (make the user wait until completion of callsign or phrase to answer)
• Free of any requirement for a backend server (static website)
  • Low data usage for mobile users
  • Should be hostable with almost no cost
• Scoring/gamification should encourage the user to shoot for a long term goal (e.g. decode 50k characters) versus getting discouraged by periods little or no improvement.
• Should be easy for developers to implement new game modes and game data (e.g. Top 100 words, DXCC100 Calls, etc.)
• Open source and free forever!

Requirements

• Node >= 17.x

Development

The easiest way to get started is to fork this project and open up a Github Codespace. It should work out of the box.

If you want to develop on your own machine, use the following:

• git clone
• cd morse.mdp.im
• yarn install
• yarn dev
• Open your browser to localhost:3000/head-copy/

Morse Code Headlines

This is both a web application and a podcast generator.

Requirements

• Node >= 17.x
• ffmpeg installed

Deployment

All deployment is scheduled and handled via Github Actions, however, it's possible to deploy a podcast to your own AWS S3 bucket using the following:

Generate and deploy a podcast locally

Assumes you have the required env variables (NEWSAPI_KEY and AWS keys)

Create a new podcast and upload it to S3 (15wpm / 25wpm character speed)

yarn ts-node podcast/bin/new_podcast.ts -w 15 -f 25 --prefix podcast morse.mdp.im

Update RSS feed (15/25wpm) based on S3 contents

yarn ts-node podcast/bin/update_rss.ts -w 15 -f 25 --prefix podcast morse.mdp.im

Update headlines.json (updates website headline game)

yarn ts-node podcast/bin/update_headlines.ts --prefix podcast morse.mdp.im