• "QSO" format and any other format you want.
• Rave Reviewed in the amateur press.
• 100% Menu driven, user friendly and easy to use.
• Designed for Morse and computer beginners and experts alike!
• This is a very sophisticated and powerful program designed and written for radio amateurs by radio amateurs who are also professional teachers.
• Contains every facility for anyone to learn Morse *fast* and have fun at the same time! UK, USA or wherever you like.
• Lends itself to any method of learning, including the Koch method
• Runs under all versions of windows and DOS

The program has sections dealing with:

• learning,
• practising to gain speed and confidence,
• making up all your own texts and tests (DIY-Tests)
• teaching correct use of the key
• testing.

The speed the characters are sent at is set by you at from 10 to 100 words per minute (wpm). The space speed (delay, time between characters) can be independently set at any value from 1 to 100 wpm. If the space speed is less than the character speed then the letter and word spacing is increased, thus giving an increased delay. This gives you more "thinking time" while still allowing the characters to be heard and learned as complete sounds rather than as dots and dashes. This is exactly the method recommended by the RSGB and other experts.

Timing and Sound Output:
A built-in 'Speed-Check' tells you the average speed of the Morse (whether or not the space speed equals the character speed!) and the program auto-calibrates to the correct speed (almost exactly, in fact).
Output is to the PC internal speaker (the pitch of the note or tone is set by you) and/or to an external oscillator or rig (via a very simple interface). It is easy to redirect the output to your sound card - detailed instructions are included.

Learning the Characters
To hear how the various characters should sound you can type directly into the keyboard and hear the ones you want as many times as you like. Also it will print random characters on screen while sending them as Morse. Alternatively, the program will send random numbers, letters, punctuation, procedures, abbreviations etc. (from groups that you select or make up) for you to identify. It tells you if you are right or wrong and keeps a check on your score (and even makes comments!)

To learn by the Koch method see the next section.

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Practising to Gain Speed
You set the program to send anything from 30 second blocks to test-length blocks (or longer) of anything that you want. Over 4260 specially-selected real words of up to 12 letters long and over 3000 callsigns (with prefixes and suffixes), procedures and punctuation are included. This section is useful for making tapes for use in a car etc. as well as for normal learning and practise, and for teaching, too.

The 'Special Selection' section is ideal for learning by the Koch method.

In the Practise section you select random:

• Numbers.
• Letters from the 'standard' 26 letter alphabet.
• Characters from a 'special' alphabet (consisting of the regular alphabet plus extra letters, numbers, punctuation and/or procedures that you select).
• Just your own letter/number/procedure and/or punctuation selection on its own.
• Letters/numbers mixed, plus your own special selection including procedures, punctuation, etc.
• Procedures, abbreviations, Q-codes, punctuation.
• Real words (from over 4260 in the program!).
• Callsigns (from over 3000) including reciprocal (e.g. EA5/G4UXD) and suffixes (/P, /M), and the new UK prefixes (e.g. M4WXL) etc.
• A mixture of everything, which is very much like a real test:
  
  

Also there's a mode in which it sends a word (or whatever) and you type in what you think it sent. It tells you if you're right or wrong, and lets you have another try if you want.

Random groups are from 1 letter up to a maximum of 5 to 12 (inclusive) characters long, to simulate the varying length of words in real QSO's. They can also be set to a constant length of 5 characters. Additionally the computer will send an increased frequency of the letters and/or numbers / procedures that you find difficult or even groups from just your own selection.

The main problem with Morse Tutor machines and the vast majority of programs is that they send everything in blocks of five characters and letters at random from the ordinary alphabet. This program does not suffer from those deficiencies and in addition sends Q-codes, callsigns, abbreviations, procedures, punctuation and real words. These are a stepping-stone to copying both QSO-type tests and plain text passages. They are randomly sent so you cannot anticipate (the worst evil!!).

A screen print-out is immediately available either during or after sending.

There is an option to have it send any plain text file to you, but it is in the 'Tests' section
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DIY-Tests
Once the code has been learned and reading speed gained, the best way to gain proficiency is to read lots of text or test passages. DIY-Tests lets you edit and store up to 30 such tests or texts under one filename and to have as many filenames as you want! An important feature is that punctuation and procedures are allowed so you can practise anything, from lifelike on-air-type QSOs and "new-QSO-style" tests to real plain language text. There is a 'split screen' with type-ahead buffer.

Teachers find the 30 memories to be indispensable; they can prepare a whole session in advance then replay it during the lesson. 'Automatic Character Frequency Analysis' and 'Passage Time Prediction' make it really easy to generate mock QSO-tests at Class-A or Novice speeds, or any speed/delay combination! This is indispensable for teachers and students alike!
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Beacon Mode
This is very useful for on-air Morse teachers. For example, a short message can be placed in one of the 30 memories announcing an imminent on-air Morse lesson. The message is sent repeatedly, both keeping people informed and the frequency clear!

Morse Tests
This program caters fully for the new 'QSO-style' UK Morse test. There are 250 simulated tests on the disk in the new "on-air UK 'QSO' test format" (growing all the time!) and 150 of these are of exactly the correct test length and specification.  You can very easily make more using the special facilities. There are also 238 '3-minute' plain-text passages.

But if all that isn't enough you can have Supa Tuta send your own plain text passages, whatever their length... it never gets tired or loses patience with you!
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Sending Morse TO the Computer
You can connect an ordinary key to the serial port without an interface (both COM1 and COM2 are supported). To learn how to use the key you send back to the computer characters, words or other combinations that it sends to you; you can even use the 'erase' signal to correct errors!

If you are wrong it will point out the mistake. You can also practise sending Morse normally in fixed speed or speed tracking mode (i.e. 'off-air' style, new in Version 10). The program is very critical; it will point out sending and timing errors and (using unique methods) teach you to send properly. However, you should not start sending until you can read Morse properly!
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Further details:
The program has a variety of easy-to-use special advanced features not normally found on software of this type, including:

• 'Automatic Character Frequency Analysis' of text in memories and of Morse sent.
• An easy-to-use set-up/install program and an uninstall program (both for Win 9x, ME, XP) that does everything for you automatically.
• Access to a temporary DOS prompt (shell) without leaving the program or losing any settings or memories.
• Alphabetical cataloguing of memories for selection for auto-loading.
• Built-in alarm/session timer so you know when it's time to stop.
• Full editing of the memories in a built-in text editor (including all the procedures and punctuation, etc., etc.).
• It tells you to the second how long it will take to send a passage you are composing, even if the character speed and delay are different! Teachers and Examiners please note.
• On-line technical and tuition help.
• Reports passage time duration, average word length, numbers of characters/words sent:
  
  plus a full Character Frequency Analysis as shown before. 
• Saving to/deleting from disk of memories (with verify before deletion or over-writing of existing memories).
• Select the working mode (Novice or Normal); the program adjusts automatically to the correct speeds.
• The current settings are automatically saved to a configuration file which is automatically re-loaded at the next session, so that you're right back in where you left off!
• Warning on exit of any un-saved memories.
• You can specify working directories to save memories and texts in and to load them from.
• More things that I can't think of just now.

Plus:

• Unlimited Customer Technical and Moral Support ... but it's hardly ever needed!
• Postal delivery is by first-class mail, by return of post whenever possible (unless we're on holiday).
• This program will prove that you can learn Morse.... guaranteed!
• It will teach you to send and receive properly and will do everything except take your test!
• White-stick operators use this program successfully via a variety of screen readers.

This very versatile program runs on all "IBM-compatible" PCs

The author's policy is to provide a first-class product at the
lowest possible price and to avoid making a loss at the same time.

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