Morse Coding Tips: How to successfully use Morster interpreter

Morster can translate morse code sequences keyed using the morse armature key. Morster will measure the duration of the signals and determine whether the signal is a dot or a dash character.

Morster will automatically adjust to the speed of the signals and display the current morse speed.

If a dot is shorter than the current speed, it will be interpreted as a dot and the morse speed will be adjusted, if signal is longer than a dash at the current speed, it will be interpreted as a dash and the current speed will be updated.

If morse signaling is faster or slower than the currently analyzed speed, characters may be interpreted incorrectly. Once the speed is consistent and each morse character has been keyed, the interpreter will become more accurate.

To calibrate the interpreter for a given speed, morse a character that contains both the dot and the dash characters such as ‘V’, ‘...-’.

When keying morse characters, try to use a consistent speed. This will increase the accuracy of the Morster interpreter and it will also help train you to become a better morse code communicator.

If dot characters are too short, the average morse speed will be increased and successive signals will have to maintain this speed to be interpreted properly. If a dash character is too long, it will slow down the average morse speed and successive signals will have to be within the average speed and tolerance for proper interpretation.
The current speed is calculated based on averaging the speed of morse characters. This provides a way to compare characters to each other and the expected speed. This means that a series of dots and dashes must be keyed before the speed can adequately be determined. Otherwise any given signal duration could be considered a slow dot or a fast dash. It is only when they can be compared to each other that they can be interpreted properly.

These considerations apply to manually keying morse code, or when using a decoding feature such as the camera or microphone. It also applies to devices that use Key Up/Down as a communication method for local networking or Game Center.