Better-ICR for practicing you CW reception

I'm still plugging away at my CW.  There are good day and bad day, I guess that is to be expected. One of the keys to good CW reception is what is called 'Instant Character Recognition', or ICR for short. I have previously posted about this and included some websites that have been helpful.  

There is however, a new kid on the block (or maybe I have just stumbled across it).  It is called 'Better-ICR' and it can be found at https://better-icr.herokuapp.com/.  Firstly, you enter the sound card setting and then press 'Start' it will send a character, and then time how long it takes for you to say the character out aloud.  Once you have done that you then enter the character using the keyboard. 

So it is, hear => speak => type, and then repeat.

It will then produce a graphical representation of your response time and accuracy, see below. 

The aim is to get your response times down below the dotted green line which is set at 600 ms.

For a full explanation you can read the 'Student’s Guide to Using Better-ICR' by John Merkel AJ1DM, published on the May 9, 2025.  So I suspect that it is a new website (or at least recently updated)!

This is a good way of checking progress (or regress, for that matter).   I think I will stick with this site to see if I can make some headway.

Enjoy!

It's Official - The QMX now includes SSB.

 

QMX SSB functionality has now been promoted to official version 1_02_000

 After six weeks of Beta releases, the QMX is now officially a CW, Digi and SSB transceiver!

 

On the 2nd of May, Hans made it official. This small pocket sized radio is feature packed, and the feature will, no doubt, still continue to be rolled out. 

 

This major update relates to both the QMX and the QMX+.    

I wonder of the fun in Amateur Radio is inversely proportional to the the amount of money spent on the gear.  The QMX would have to be one of the cheapest investment in AR that I have made, and yet seems to have provided me with the most fun.  And we all need a bit of fun in our lives, don't we!