Letting the nanokeyer decode my morse attempts / 2020-07-31

I'm still trying to learn morse and I currently make too many errors while sending with the paddle at a reasonable speed (12 words per minute).

Digging into the documentation for the winkeyer protocol showed me the option to get the morse it thinks I sent back to the computer.

This is even a supported option in winkeydaemon, the -e option.

       -e     Turns  on  winkeyer's  'echo'  feature and makes the daemon echo
              transmitted CW to all active clients (see '-p').

              Test this feature with the  'netcat'  utility:  'echo  |  nc  -u
              127.0.0.1  6789'.  This creates an active, echo-only client ses‐
              sion.

And indeed I can test my work:

$ ./winkeydaemon -s 13 -e
$ echo | nc -u localhost 6789
CQ CQ DE PE4KH

This could be used to write a morse trainer program. For now I use it to test whether I paddle what I want.

Update 2020-08-23: When I mix decoding from winkeydaemon and using the keyer in CQRlog the result is that CQRlog doesn't repaint its windows and needs to be killed and restarted to get it to work again.