In PILOT MODE You can listen to (and see) the Morse code when you press letters of the alphabet, or you can test yourself with a Morse quiz of between 1 and 50 letters, all generated at random. You can also vary the speed of presentation from very slow (sometimes good for initial learning) right up to an extremely high speed. The tone (frequency) of the Morse code can be lowered or raised too, allowing you to listen to a similar note to that of the equipment you will be using.

In RADIO HAM MODE you also get the numbers, and some basic punctuation.  You even get the latest addition to Morse Code - the symbol @ which was officially added at the end of 2003, which is at least several decades after the previous update!

  

Morse Tutor displays the answers after
playing a 20 letter quiz at speed setting 4 (fast!)

After starting with slow speed and with only a few letters in each test, I used the test facility to practice identifying 2 letter NDB’s and then three letter VOR’s with the speed turned up higher and higher as I got better.  (You can select from 1 to 50 questions in your tests - the screenshot above shows the answers after a 20 letter test, pretty hard to do with the speed setting at 4, which is quite fast!)

Morse Tutor displaying the whole alphabet for reference.
In PILOT MODE (default) numbers and punctuation are suppressed.

Hardware Requirements

Morse Tutor will run on any Microsoft DOS or Windows platform- from MS-DOS to Windows XP, so long as you have a functioning PC speaker or earphones. (Because it is MS-DOS based, you can even run it on a really old machine equipped with Windows 3.1!) 

Morse Tutor can also use the PC Speaker channel to play amplified sound through a sound card.  You can view a .pdf file which explains how to setup and configure sound, but this is rarely needed.

Morse Tutor comes as one single executable file. There is no installation procedure required – just save the file into a folder and double click it to run. It can even be run from a floppy disk if you want to practice Morse on the train using your laptop, but remember the earphones!

Free Updates for life!

Anyone purchasing Morse Tutor will be entitled (if they want it!) to a free copy of all future updates to the program, sent by email to a nominated address.  You can email me and suggest future tweaks, and if there is enough demand, they will be incorporated into the next release.