It seems like it refreshes from blank every time anyone joins or leaves the room. Which happens about once every half second. It leaves me too less time to write anything meaningful.
That might have been me! There were one or two M stations there. I heard a couple of stations calling CQ. Very difficult to pick out signals without any filtering.
Very cool. It does get a bit chaotic when there are a number of people keying. If there was the ability to add a narrow filter then it could be usable for a QSO (radio contact)!
There are some other apps designed for having QSOs - VBand[1] and Vail Repeater[2].
Finally if you want to learn to use morse code on the air check out Long Island CW Club[3]
I had a blast with this. I got Claude to write a function for encoding a string to Morse and sending it, and then a patch that displays a 10-character rolling display next to the name of other users. From what I can tell with zero Morse code experience, most users are just sending random characters by accident.
I was pretty pleased to see it work when I ran two windows side-by-side, called `sendMorse('never gonna give you up')` in one window, and then watched it roll through the display on the other window.
I called CQ for a bit but nobody on at the time seemed to know Morse. Neat idea though, and with the different tones for different users it would be possible to overcome the background noise of people playing around.
I am really surprised people aren't using WebSockets for absolutely everything at this point. The only strength to HTTP is that its session-less, which is convenient for one off data requests that prefer anonymity without authentication.
If you're interested in learning morse, there's a great app for Android, "Morse Mania: Learn Morse Code" from which I learned. It's surprisingly easy to pick up the basics but requires a good bit of practice to be able to parse it in real time.
One suggestion might be to highlight the last letter received in the chart. If the user clicks on one of the other user names, then only transmissions from that user should be decoded.
Ha ha! I did notice one use of the F-word. Then again if you understand Morse code you are probably happy to hear anything you understand in the chaos!
It is amazing how good the human brain is picking out signal from the noise.
I did spot one other Ham a fellow Brit (G4) but didn't complete a QSO (a contact). 73 (kind regards) de M5NCW
73 de G4IYT :)
There are some other apps designed for having QSOs - VBand[1] and Vail Repeater[2].
Finally if you want to learn to use morse code on the air check out Long Island CW Club[3]
[1]: https://hamradio.solutions/vband/ [2]: https://vailmorse.com/ [3]: https://longislandcwclub.org/
Its backstory is also a bit silly, it started as the simplest app idea I could think of; I posted more about it recently[2].
[1]: https://apps.apple.com/app/simple-morse-tool/id873021583
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45569321
I was pretty pleased to see it work when I ran two windows side-by-side, called `sendMorse('never gonna give you up')` in one window, and then watched it roll through the display on the other window.
Code here, if you'd like to try the same thing: https://gist.github.com/epiccoleman/58560a6469a163050f7aa888...
Btw, for emacs users, there is a `morse-region` and `unmorse-region` https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MorseCode to play with
Feels like a meeting on a remote island shore where nobody understands each other's language, but it's still hella fun :)
Another fun one is this one: https://www.telegraphsimulator.com