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short demo of using the free open source modular synthesizer program - VCV RACK - to build your own software "keyable" Morse Code Practice Oscillator

the plugins shown used, are some of the basic default plugins that install with the VCV RACK program....the Morse Code CPO setup uses a typical basic framework to make a midi keyed…

VB-AUDIO's Spectralissime is working perfectly on LINUX LUBUNTU 16.04 using W.I.N.E and the WINEasio driver for JackRouter.  This is a windows program and this demo would also apply to a windows install of this excellent software audio spectrum analyzer.  This video below,  is a brief demo showing the spectrum readout of FLdigi sending cw at 40 wpm and varying the rise/fall time and toggling on & off - FLdigi's own unique and powerful CW bandpass filter…

This video is demo’N a setup to create a custom QRQ CW sine wave, raised cosine edged, ‘keyable’ oscillator

There are already 2 excellent programs for LINUX for a software QRQ CW KEYBOARD… FLdigi and TWQRQ...however, neither one of them are ‘keyable’ - this first video in a new video series on “QRQ CW OVER 100 WPM” uses Fldigi as a tool to…

click on the YOUTUBE icon at the bottom of any video in this 6 part series that you are interested in to see its discussion notes and links

One of the advantages of sending CW this way, is that you can send a very customized and optimized cw waveshape that has extremely low distortion and harmonic energy... extremely low key…

test results are shown(no sound on video) for hitting a lever that sends a TONE into the mic input jack of a laptop...a separate USB RECORDING MIC is placed at an equal distance from from both the LEVER and the SPEAKER (ABOUT 6 inches to mic from both the lever and the speaker) the MIC measures the TAP sound when hitting the LEVER and the final…

Robin Schmidt's EngineersFilter is a remarkable software APP audio bandpass filter VST PLUGIN...this video demo shows a test to compare how well just ONE FILTER APP can take out all the harmonics of a harsh square wave CW SIDETONE...AND...output a MORSE CODE AUDIO NOTE waveform that looks the closest to a raised cosine edged CW…

This is a QRQ CW COPY TEST - to see how close I could match the great sound of FLdigi's QRQ CW with a custom cw sine wave oscillator - built up by using AMsynth and the GLAME BANDPASS FILTER...NOTE: since you can not externally KEY FLdigi... i had to search for another way to be able to key CW manually/externally - from PADDLES, KEYBOARD or…

Using VoiceMeeter on LINUX -  HAM RADIO - QSO QRQ CW over the internet with VBAN

this video LIVE demo is using a Raspberry PI 2b and FLdigi together as a CW KEYER, remote rig control AND a logging book...

- FLdigi does it ALL !

- A BIG THANK YOU TO W1HKJ !!

- this setup does not tax the pi's cpu and runs perfectly

the first part of the video demo's receiving a station on 40 meters and changing some of…

This video demos's a RASPBERRY PI using FLdigi which is sending out a stereo signal from the pi's own analogue sound card to 2 individual audio derived cw circuits: see here: http://qrqcwnet.ning.com/forum/topics/what-circuit-for-computer

one keying circuit keys…

Short demo of a MORSE CODE AUDIO sidetone QSO over the internet between 2 CW OPS using the FREE LV2 plugin - STUDIO-LINK -…

Using an audio derived cw keying circuit to key CW on the K3S : http://qrqcwnet.ning.com/forum/topics/what-circuit-for-computer

- with the circuit attached to the K3S cw keying jack...and being key'ed remotely via a voice chat program called MUMBLE:…

using MUMBLE and MORSE CODE audio tones, and varying the Mumble output volume from 15 percent to 200 percent, this video demo's VLevel keeping the volume output of Mumble to be extremely stable at a near zero DB final audio output to the sound card, no matter the level of volume at VLeveL's input...VLevel is acting as an AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL, and…

Brief demo of what a morse code audio QSO over IP sounds like - using the WIRE DESKTOP APP

The Wire Desktop APP software

https://wire.com/en/

https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop

Description

Secure, end-to-end encrypted messenger…

SETUP: an UltraPico Keyer, keys a 555 TIMER CHIP..from the audio output of the 555, an audio cable is attached and goes to the input of a laptop's mic jack input...the 555 time chip sidetone is very rough sounding with lots of high pitched harmonics and key clicks...INSTEAD of trying to filter the 555's raspy tone, this video demo's using TRIGGER…

SEREN - FULL MESH, P2P AUDIO, FULL DUPLEX, HIGH FIDELITY, with adjustable bit rate..mono or stereo....using the OPUS CODEC



- LIVE DEMO SETUP -

1st SEREN OPERATOR, will act as the Central SEREN NODE using a Raspberry Pi that is always "ON"...two more SEREN operators will connect to the PI's SEREN NODE and automatically be connected…

GLAZE is a very simple p2p audio app for WINDOWS, MAC and LINUX that lets you easily create a voice chat room, call it whatever you like and you can have your fellow Morse Code OPS join you on GLAZE with just the name of the room. - no subscription required....no logins...no passwords...just the name of the room, and then type in any user name you…

this video demo's 3 cw ops transmitting over MUMBLE, in the same channel, on iCW at the same time and yet on the receive side, each op's individual audio stream is able to be controlled using this experimental setup using all free software.

EXPERIMENTAL TEST SETUP

3 different cw ops are sending at different speeds and different pitches -…

2 low bitrate codecs are compared for how well they sound transmitting CW AUDIO TONES over the internet(FLdigi)...and then how well they do when their original low bitrate cw audio is regenerated using all free software vst plugins

here is a snapshot comparing the original waveforms of the 2 low bitrate codecs:…

This video demonstrates an A/B comparison of transmitting morse code audio tones over the internet using a NINJAM SERVER, where the CW audio quality is usually poor, with lots of pops and clicks...however, if you use the original audio from the output of the NINJAM CLIENT, and divert it first to a software APPLICATION in order to regenerate the…