Hello Friends of CW!

LKMT is designed to train and verify your capabilities in keying and puting chars. For that reason, it provides a direct compare of required signal and your input on an "Oscillograph-Screen".
To key in morse code, you might use morse key via com to usb converter, mouse or line in of sound card. A microphone might do as well.

This won't work without some options for listening, so listen training is included as well and it shows some nice features other tools do not provide. However, to initially learn morse code, there are probably more convenient tools at the market - working directly in browser like LCWO, light wight executables as F6DQM's CW-Morse Code Teacherr and the lots of smart phone based apps allowing you any training wherever you are.

Instructions - easy: Here we go to -

LKMT: CW - Morse Code Reading Trainer

Let us first see what advantages LKMT shows as a Reading trainer:

• All Settings as
  tone frequency, volume
  character speed, Farnsworth setting
  and the selected characters to train
  can be changed during the ongoing training session with immediate effect - No stop is required
  (I personally like vary the speed during a session)
  
  
• All settings are visible at a glance.
  You are not tortured by menus and sub menus and sub-sub menus:
  
  
  



• Morse code, individually selectable letter for letter or just as a whole block like "AddAlpha"
  
  
• Do you have difficulties with specific signs or a specific mix of some signs?
  (Meaning e.g. if there is just one, only this one is provided, if there are three different, and one character is four times more represented than the others, it will be provided 4 time more).
  There is the option
  to influence the probability of a sign(s) If you enter for example 5 'e',   5 'h'   and one 'v',
  you will trained with e and h, the 'v' is just the salt in the generated ...  groups.
  It, of course, can be changed during a ongoing session as well.
  
  
• Farnsworth training method is supported and the effective speed is shown
  
  
• 3 different read training modes (some in addition for keying):
  Groups of five characters
  Groups of arbitrary variable length and a some
  Any text that you randomly find on your hard drive (I personally prefer a selection of Chuck Norris jokes)
  
  
• All settings are stored
  ... and used when you start LKMT next time again
  
  
• Accurate morse timings, verified by Audacity:
  
  
  
• Some technical advantages:
  • No installation is required - It does not pollute your PC and registry
  • It runs on different OS and Hardware, basically everywhere, where JAVA is available

Downloads and Prerequisites

Download it here:
                   LKMT

It requires JAVA, ideally in version 8 (It has been tested systematically with 7 and occasionally with 6).
You start it best per double click (If your environment provides this option) or by using the java-command at command line like
         java -jar Lkmt.jar

With little requirements to the system, but without sound input interface:
                   LKMT

U need Java to run it ? It is provided by Oracle for free, available to a lot of different Operating Systems.
Just select the java version fitting into your OS:
Download JAVA here:
                 Download Java from Oracle

Before finishing, I would like to thank Ludwig, DK5KE, and Michael, DF2OK, for the helpful ideas.  

73 and Cheers,
Ulrich

Some Additional Notes

LKMT has been tested

• Win XP           32 Bit
  
• Win 7              64 bit
  
• Ubuntu 12.04  64 bit
  As per test result, please use Oracle Java in Ubuntu

It is supposed to run at:

• Win32 & Win64 (Win98-Win10),
• Linux(x86, x86-64, ARM),
• Solaris (x86, x86-64),
• Mac OS X 10.5 and higher(x86, x86-64, PPC, PPC64)

It is supported by:
JSSC       (java-simple-serial-connector by Sokolov Alexey)
and
JChart2D (Minimalistic realtime charting library by Achim Westermann)

You look for a differnt lightweight training software? Check here "Precision CW" by DJ7HS.