WEBVTT 1 00:00:09.640 --> 00:00:15.439 The Ham Radio two point zero Audio podcast rip. Thank you for downloading and 2 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:19.239 listening to this podcast. So basically what I do is I take all the 3 00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:24.879 audio clips out of my videos and upload them to spreaker and then from there 4 00:00:24.879 --> 00:00:31.280 they're spread out to iTunes and SoundCloud and now Amazon Audible as well. But 5 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:35.079 I want to welcome you and thank you for joining the audio section of this 6 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:40.200 series on Ham Radio. I hope you enjoy it, and I would appreciate 7 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:45.880 you leaving us a comment or a review on whatever podcast service you're listening from. 8 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:52.640 Thank you in seventy three. I hope you enjoy it all right man. 9 00:00:52.679 --> 00:00:54.960 Well, Scott, thanks for taking the time out tonight. I know 10 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:57.719 you've done some updates, and I know you've told me what they are, 11 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:00.880 but I but I'm gonna let you explain it because you'll say it better than 12 00:01:00.880 --> 00:01:06.519 I will anyway. So yeah, So zero dot nine zero, I think 13 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:08.920 was the version that I have here and the one we talked about the last 14 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:12.040 time we want to stream together. So what's the new version? What? 15 00:01:12.040 --> 00:01:17.519 What? What are people being shipped today? Well, the board is a 16 00:01:17.519 --> 00:01:23.480 newer version at zero dot nine one. Okay, why I'm sticking with version 17 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:26.799 numbers below one. I really don't know. Coming from the computer world. 18 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:33.480 I used a library called open SSL that for fifteen years had version zero dot 19 00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:37.159 nine eight. It was like they were afraid to actually declare a version one 20 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:40.879 at any time. Well, okay, it was nine eight nine eight B 21 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:45.480 nine eight C. So it's kind of the same way with my first venture 22 00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:49.159 into making these kits. So okay, still haven't still haven't got the nerve 23 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:52.560 to break that one dot zero version on there. And it's the same thing 24 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:57.439 with the firmware version two. But let me go over first of all, 25 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:00.840 the board. Yeah, we'll just pull up a copy of pull up the 26 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:07.200 image of the board there. This is the assembled board. When you turn 27 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:09.520 it on, it splashes up there and it shows you what version of firmware 28 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:13.680 it got. You got in there. I'll pull that up again and it's 29 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:19.479 in this case I've got zero got nine eight firmware running on a zero dot 30 00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:24.680 nine one board. Primary difference from in terms of the physical board from what 31 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:29.680 we had originally is it actually is stereo. Because I had some people complain 32 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:36.599 that when they plug a jack in there with plug your little stereo jack in 33 00:02:36.599 --> 00:02:39.719 there, it only comes out one year so in this case, I actually 34 00:02:39.759 --> 00:02:45.319 made the jack compatible with stereo, so you can you can plug in a 35 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:49.199 stereo headset and you can listen to it that way, or in the case 36 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:52.199 of my my use, I just have this little speaker that I've plugged in 37 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:54.680 there, which I've got to set underneath the microphone so you can hear the 38 00:02:54.759 --> 00:03:00.520 chirping. And in addition to that, I've added a little volume roll off 39 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:06.479 here on the side. It's a little thumb wheel. When Chris had contacted 40 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:08.439 me about building a three D case, I immediately said, well, let 41 00:03:08.439 --> 00:03:12.400 me make sure that the thumb wheel hangs off the end of the board, 42 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:17.479 so you will be able to actually use the three D case and be able 43 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:23.400 to adjust the volume control on the outside. What I actually should have done 44 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:27.960 is probably moved the plugs to the sides as well, and maybe even the 45 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:30.560 switch to the side so that it's a little bit easier to access, But 46 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:34.439 I wasn't thinking that far ahead. And now he was almost done with the 47 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:38.800 second board layout before he approached me on that, so that the primary changes 48 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:45.039 on that are the addition of the volume control and support for stereo, and 49 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:51.719 the manufacturer of the little Schmidt trigger inverter that I used to generate the oscillator. 50 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:55.439 They became unavailable. I had to replace it with a different supplier. 51 00:03:55.919 --> 00:04:00.759 It's not a big problem except that the thresholds on him are so it actually 52 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:04.560 squeals at about one killer hurts tone instead of what it used to do was 53 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:11.439 about four tone. So okay, those are effectively all the changes that we 54 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:17.920 had physically to the layout of the board. Okay, good and uh, 55 00:04:19.480 --> 00:04:23.279 whenever you want to talk about this later, we can. But people who 56 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:27.759 had the original version you were handing having them send. In fact, the 57 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:30.879 salty Ham is in the chat saying tell Scott and thank you for the super 58 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:33.279 chat. Buddy, Tell Scott, I haven't forgotten about sending my MCU chip 59 00:04:33.319 --> 00:04:40.480 back for updating life Life things cleared, so so we'll send soon. But 60 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:46.120 up to the first I want to say, it was thirty boards that I 61 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:50.120 sent had the original version of the firmware, which is the only way to 62 00:04:50.120 --> 00:04:56.839 do the upgrade was using by actually pulling the let me pull this back up 63 00:04:56.879 --> 00:05:01.519 again here, Yeah, actually physically removing the chip and sending it in for 64 00:05:01.560 --> 00:05:06.920 an update, or if you actually are a bit of a hacker and you 65 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:13.199 do any programming with microchip. This little device here called the pick kit is 66 00:05:13.279 --> 00:05:16.199 what I used to program it. You can attach it to headers that are 67 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:20.439 right up here, and you can take the firmware and download it straight in 68 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:25.120 if you're if you're that Darren. But what I did was I actually added 69 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:32.480 a software update module to an area of ramming here. And if you get 70 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:40.360 one of these cables, which is a serial TTL cable, let me let 71 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:44.560 me share. You can buy these on Amazon. Okay, let me pull 72 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:46.839 this up really quick. No, that's me. I don't want me. 73 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:51.040 I want to pull that up. This is this is them on Amazon. 74 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:57.240 It's very important that the one you buy is the three point three or three 75 00:05:57.360 --> 00:06:01.000 v three version that's a three point three volt because this chip is raided for 76 00:06:01.079 --> 00:06:04.240 three volt three point three vaults. They've got a five vault version two, 77 00:06:04.600 --> 00:06:08.560 and you don't want to do that because it would probably damage the chip. 78 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:14.680 So let me go back to this. But you can take that cable and 79 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:21.639 you can simply plug it into the side and there's some update software that's available 80 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:29.199 on my website. So you download that little executeable, tell it what serial 81 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:33.759 port this is TOM one, two three or whatever, and then tell it 82 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:38.680 the name of the of the hex file that you want to download, and 83 00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:43.879 right now on the website, there's three different versions. There's the original nine 84 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:48.600 dot where nine one. Then there's a nine five, and now there's a 85 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:54.279 nine eight which has a new new feature in it, which we'll get to 86 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:58.680 later. This is the file. I put a link to this also in 87 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:01.000 the boxes that I ship out. It's also a QR code. You can 88 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:08.240 just scan it and go right here. Up here it talks about the instructions 89 00:07:08.279 --> 00:07:11.879 that you get. You can actually click on that and it pulls up a 90 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:17.519 PDF of all the instructions. Much of this is already part of the assembly, 91 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:21.079 plus the cable that I was talking about. Let me go back to 92 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:27.399 the page. So you've got the three diversions of instructions. I've got the 93 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:31.040 different versions of the original firmware that are available here. These are just hex 94 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:36.480 files, so you download them and say them, and then there's the extensive 95 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:42.079 instructions. Same thing that you would see there you would also see here. 96 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:47.279 I'm sorry. These are the instructions on building the unit. Down here are 97 00:07:47.279 --> 00:07:53.240 the instructions on how you can update the firmware. If you have one of 98 00:07:53.240 --> 00:07:58.480 the newer FIRMWAREES that's after version I think it was thirty five or thirty six, 99 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:01.600 something like that. So you need this cable here, which is a 100 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:05.920 three point three vault cable. You'll have to supply this little header that will 101 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:11.680 connect to over by the knob. You can download an executable that I wrote. 102 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:16.079 When you plug in the FTDI cable, it will create a new comport, 103 00:08:16.519 --> 00:08:18.879 a new serial port in there tells you how to find out what the 104 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:24.160 serial port is when you plug it in, and then when you want to 105 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:31.319 execute the executable, you give it the name of the executable, the name 106 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:35.240 of the x file that you're upgrading too, and the comport you're sending it 107 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:39.399 to, and it'll take ten to fifteen minutes to actually do the update. 108 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:43.600 It's a bit on the slow side because I'm doing a lot of redundancy because 109 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:50.000 I want to make sure that if there's if there's any corruption in the data, 110 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:54.320 it doesn't actually try to commit that into the memory. Otherwise you I 111 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:58.120 think the term would be brick the unit. And then the solution is just 112 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:03.039 send it your back to me and I'll reflash it. There was a question 113 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:11.159 that Tank asked while we were offline about which cable is this? Now this 114 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:16.559 shows it's this cable here, which is you can buy through Amazon. What 115 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:20.320 happened here, I'm gonna show the pics. There we go. You can 116 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:22.840 buy this through Amazon. As I said, it's got to be the three 117 00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:30.720 point three volt cable. The other option that I was talking about is this 118 00:09:30.840 --> 00:09:39.360 thing for hackers who have done any kind of little micro microprocessor programming with Microchip, 119 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:45.159 because that's what this thing uses as a microchip. This you can buy, 120 00:09:45.240 --> 00:09:48.639 but this is pushing like sixty to eighty bucks, so I use it 121 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:52.399 to program a whole bunch of them. I wouldn't recommend buying it just to 122 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:58.840 program the Morse Monkey once or twice. But you use this in concert with 123 00:09:58.279 --> 00:10:07.480 Microchip software development environment, and you can plug that directly into if you take 124 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:11.360 a header and put it up here, you can plug that directly in up 125 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:16.320 there. The instructions don't go into detail on how to do that, because 126 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:20.720 I don't imagine there's a whole lot of software engineers or firmware engineers who who 127 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:24.559 would want to be doing it this way. Don't you have a new software 128 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:28.559 feature or two? Because I was going to get to that next let's let's 129 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:37.080 do it. As I'm going through this, let me pull up the picture. 130 00:10:37.960 --> 00:10:41.960 I'll go through the newer features that I've added compared to the original ones 131 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:45.960 that had come out. First thing we do is we turn it on and 132 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:50.200 it tells you the version number, in this case zero nine eight. It 133 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:54.639 defaults to the settings menu. We have the same settings menu between an iambic 134 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:58.679 keyer or a straight kier. I learned from Jason last time that you had 135 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:07.039 said that the the the when pushing this forward, the left key is normally 136 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:09.759 the long and the right key is normally the short for I am the key? 137 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:15.200 Uh no, backwards of that? Backwards? Okay? Yes, well 138 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:18.840 we can at least the key that the key that I have is is back. 139 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:22.159 The right key is the is the daw and the I'm yeah. The 140 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:26.000 right key is the dad. Left key is that did? Okay, Well, 141 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:28.240 we can set between either one and we can handle the change. I'll 142 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:31.600 get to that next. And you know a lot of people change it, 143 00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:35.480 especially if you're left handed. A lot of times that that that's kind of 144 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:39.799 a personal preference issue. I think I'm not an expert CW guy, but 145 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:43.759 I believe that's a personal preference issue. So yeah, if you can change 146 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:46.679 it in the software even even more so, the better we can. But 147 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:50.840 yeah, okay, great. This next option is turning the background lights on 148 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:56.960 or off. But I've got so many uh lights shining on this thing, 149 00:11:56.759 --> 00:12:00.440 I can turn it on. Yeah, that helps. You can see that 150 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:05.759 the lights turn on to give you a background light, but they also offer 151 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:11.840 you the feedback of either turning green or red for a second if you get 152 00:12:11.879 --> 00:12:16.080 something wrong. So let me see if it's just my desk lights here and 153 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:22.919 get a little bit of lighting up that green again. Okay, well, 154 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:26.960 moving on. The next setting is the words per minute, which is you 155 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:35.960 have an option of eighteen, ten or five. Go back to the ten 156 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:39.639 is where it usually defaults too. When you're doing I am bickying, obviously, 157 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:45.039 it really doesn't make any any difference. I'm watching the chat for a 158 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:48.120 question. Oh yeah, I just I've just been that up there for everybody 159 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:50.639 else. Okay, you're fine. When you're doing I AM bickying, obviously, 160 00:12:50.679 --> 00:12:54.279 it doesn't make any difference in terms of how long you're holding the paddle 161 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:58.919 down because it doesn't for you. But it uses the words per minute to 162 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:03.000 determine how much of a gap, it needs to wait before it decides you're 163 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:07.840 done keying a letter and then moves on from there. The other setting now 164 00:13:09.080 --> 00:13:13.720 is a side tone, which somebody was asking about when I first came out 165 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:18.240 with this, and that was whether or not it plays what you key because 166 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:22.000 it will play things for you that you need to write down or copy, 167 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:26.440 and it always plays that tone. But this is whether or not it will 168 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:33.159 actually play what you're tapping on your keyer. And then we have this new 169 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:37.600 one which you mentioned for straight king or the iambic daw, which is long 170 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:48.240 whether it's going to use the tip or the ring on the plug, and 171 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:50.960 you can set it to either be the tip or the ring, and depending 172 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:54.120 on how you then have the plug wired up, that gives you the ability 173 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:58.919 to reverse which side of the keyer is going to be the long and which 174 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:03.720 side is going to be the short for I am a king. And then 175 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:07.120 also we have the ability to save the settings, so if you hit save, 176 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:11.480 it will save the settings if it detects any changes. In this case, 177 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:15.480 I didn't actually change anything, so it didn't save them. This way, 178 00:14:15.559 --> 00:14:18.679 when you turn the power off and turn the power back on, you 179 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:20.440 don't have to go through all those settings and restore it back to the way 180 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:26.120 it was. So that's also a new feature. And we go back into 181 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:30.440 the root menu. We've got practice mode, Dictate mode, Echo mode, 182 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:35.799 copy mode, which are existing ones in the new Coke mode. So we'll 183 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:41.200 go through these again really quick. Practice mode just lets you randomly key things 184 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:46.960 and it will tell you what it thinks you keyed. Can you hear that? 185 00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:52.240 Did you hear the byes? Okayes? I heard three dits and let 186 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:54.360 me hit well those are DAWs actually, Oh okay, okay, three to 187 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:58.639 three dits? Yeah, okay, now that I hear the difference, yes, 188 00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:05.240 okay, and then uh an n or yeah, and then an A 189 00:15:05.320 --> 00:15:11.320 and then and if it doesn't know what it is, it gives you a 190 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:15.039 little last risk, which is I told Frank, takes up less face on 191 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:22.200 the screen than printing out WTF. Okay, all right. Also I didn't 192 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:26.360 know that. It Also it also will handle numbers just fine, So when 193 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:31.639 you're done, just press the button their leaves. The next option is dictate. 194 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:37.320 In this case it will give you a letter. Now I'm not the 195 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:41.759 worst code expert, but I do have a nice little cheat sheet that I 196 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:50.200 use here. So it's asking me for a K, which is simply a 197 00:15:50.200 --> 00:15:54.200 long short long, and it tells you whether or not you got to correct. 198 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:58.159 Then it's asking for a W and tells you whether or not you got 199 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:02.960 to correct. When you're done, press that and it tells you how many 200 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:07.000 you got right and how many you got wrong. Gotcha, and then press 201 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:10.360 it again and you're back to the root menu again. The next one is 202 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:15.159 echo. In this case, it's going to play something, not tell you 203 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:18.679 what it is, and your job is simply to repeat it. So it 204 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:25.559 will play it, and it tells you whether or not it's correct or whether 205 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:29.919 it's wrong. It will also if you don't do anything at all, it 206 00:16:29.960 --> 00:16:33.600 will wait ten seconds and then play it again so you can keep listening. 207 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:42.720 Given me all numbers first, right, Oh there's an age or hi. 208 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:51.639 Sorry. When you're done it again, we'll give you a score of how 209 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:56.039 many you got correct and how many you got wrong. The next one is 210 00:16:56.080 --> 00:17:02.080 the one copy. This one, you don't use the key er. Get 211 00:17:02.120 --> 00:17:11.279 out a uh some kind of trusty little note pad, uh like like this 212 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:15.079 little thing I got from the Hampton when I was there, and a piece 213 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:21.640 of paper, and it will play back an entire two by three call sign. 214 00:17:22.599 --> 00:17:33.119 Okay, And the idea is for you to listen to it, write 215 00:17:33.119 --> 00:17:38.680 it down, and it will replay it every ten seconds again like like the 216 00:17:38.799 --> 00:17:48.319 echo does. Now I'm not I'm not writing it down, but when you're 217 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:52.519 done, press the key or and it will show. It will tell you 218 00:17:52.680 --> 00:17:56.519 tell you what random two by three call sign it generated. Now it always 219 00:17:56.559 --> 00:18:00.960 starts with a W and a two by three. Al we has a number 220 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:03.920 in the middle, but other than that, they're all going to be random. 221 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:07.680 So you can press the keer and it will generate another random one. 222 00:18:10.319 --> 00:18:15.559 The tones you're hearing kind of fade off that zoom squelching everything. So the 223 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:18.400 actual kit, you can when you're typing on it or when it's when it's 224 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:22.359 typing to you, sounds very good. It's it's very clear and crisp. 225 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:26.519 Also, one of the reasons that I put the volume control on there is 226 00:18:27.079 --> 00:18:33.680 when people started using the little earbuds, it's very loud in there, okay, 227 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:37.640 And the original instructions recommended that you buy some headphones or earbuds that have 228 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:41.079 a volume control on them. So when you're done playing with the copy, 229 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:45.720 just practicing listening to call signs. You can just press the button eggs it 230 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:52.880 out. The new one is the Coke method. Now this is uh. 231 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:56.279 This is kind of like copy or even worse. This is where you have 232 00:18:56.319 --> 00:19:04.319 to also use the little USB to serial port. You need a terminal program. 233 00:19:04.359 --> 00:19:08.240 This window is putty. It's a terminal program. If I take the 234 00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:15.519 plug and plug it in here, it enter. I get a little menu 235 00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:19.119 there, which is just a silly little menu. It says I can't read. 236 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:23.319 It says Option number one is nothing, Option number two is even less. 237 00:19:23.799 --> 00:19:27.119 Option number three is paying no attention. If you hit like a number 238 00:19:27.240 --> 00:19:33.759 nine, it will give you some kind of message of the day, goofy 239 00:19:33.799 --> 00:19:41.160 little thing. Going back to the Coke option, let me turn that off 240 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:45.720 really fast. In this case, what it will do is it will play 241 00:19:47.079 --> 00:19:51.759 two characters for you, and then again it will repeat them every ten seconds, 242 00:19:52.359 --> 00:19:59.240 and your mission is to type them in. If I put three an 243 00:19:59.240 --> 00:20:04.599 I in year, it tells me incorrect, it was a three and an 244 00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:11.480 A. So anyway, that's the Coke method. Now in this case, 245 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:17.039 it's going to play two symbols and it's going to essentially score you in a 246 00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:25.079 percentage. It keeps track of the last ten attempts that you made, and 247 00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:29.599 when you reach eighty percent, it will add another character to it, so 248 00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:34.480 suddenly you'll be doing three characters in a row. And then when you get 249 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:40.680 eighty percent eight in a row or eight out of the last ten, it 250 00:20:40.720 --> 00:20:44.759 will update it again to four characters in a row. I wish I could 251 00:20:44.759 --> 00:20:48.119 get this to play better. Sounds pretty good right now. An F and 252 00:20:48.119 --> 00:20:55.319 then a four. Hey I got one correct, I got one out of 253 00:20:55.359 --> 00:20:57.200 the past ten, and then it moves on to another one. So when 254 00:20:57.240 --> 00:21:04.000 you're done, just press the button in it leaves and at that point this 255 00:21:04.599 --> 00:21:10.319 terminal menu goes back to whatever goofy little thing you wanted to put there. 256 00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:17.039 So that is the new feature. You want to close this? Yeah, 257 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:22.880 let me exit that out. You turn that off. That's the newest feature 258 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:26.640 that I've added, and then we're back to the settings again. So in 259 00:21:26.680 --> 00:21:30.160 a circle, we've got now five different options. We've got the practice mode, 260 00:21:30.559 --> 00:21:33.240 We've got the dictate mode where it tells you what to do. You've 261 00:21:33.240 --> 00:21:37.359 got the echo mode where you don't really know what you're typing, you're just 262 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:42.119 needing to imitate what you hear coming in you've got the copy mode where you've 263 00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:47.319 got two by three symbols like when your guys, when you guys are working 264 00:21:47.400 --> 00:21:52.559 your photos or whatever field work you're doing, trying to listen to people who 265 00:21:52.559 --> 00:21:56.680 are who are calling in. And then the new version is the cope methods. 266 00:21:57.000 --> 00:22:02.000 I would like to know folks who have the previous version that might want 267 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:07.720 the newer version. What is your suggestion for that? Do they need to 268 00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:11.279 buy another version or are you doing upgrades or how is that working? Well? 269 00:22:12.839 --> 00:22:17.640 There's the chip will work and most of the other parts will still work 270 00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:23.000 on the newer version. There's a few additional parts because it handles stereo and 271 00:22:23.079 --> 00:22:30.240 that's got the volume control. So I could ship out replacement boards in a 272 00:22:30.279 --> 00:22:33.799 handful of the additional parts that are used. If you feel you're really good 273 00:22:33.799 --> 00:22:40.880 at desoldering and wanted to move over to the new board, that would be 274 00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:51.839 substantially less cost than that than the entire new board. But the new board 275 00:22:51.880 --> 00:22:59.319 that gives you stereo, and it gives you the volume control. The existing 276 00:22:59.400 --> 00:23:03.359 chip with the new features you can use with an old board because the same 277 00:23:03.400 --> 00:23:07.920 plugs are there on the side and on the top. Let me pull this 278 00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:11.160 back up here. The same plugs are available on the side and on the 279 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:17.680 top, and they function the exact same way that they that they do on 280 00:23:17.720 --> 00:23:21.079 the new boards as they do on the old. Okay, I like the 281 00:23:21.119 --> 00:23:23.240 fact that it gets you to eighty percent and then adds another character. That's 282 00:23:23.240 --> 00:23:26.279 it. That's a neat way to learn, I think. Yeah, Frank 283 00:23:26.400 --> 00:23:29.759 was explaining that to me, so I thought I hadn't heard of that one 284 00:23:29.839 --> 00:23:32.440 before. So I did a little research, looked into it. I'm getting 285 00:23:32.440 --> 00:23:34.720 these lights out of my face down. Yeah, looked into it, and 286 00:23:34.759 --> 00:23:37.319 I thought this wouldn't be This wouldn't be too bad, it wouldn't be too 287 00:23:37.359 --> 00:23:44.160 hard to do, and it's a an accepted practice for learning Morse code. 288 00:23:44.359 --> 00:23:48.240 So Bradley asked where do we order the new version? And my response to 289 00:23:48.319 --> 00:23:51.119 him was the only the only one available right now is a new version. 290 00:23:51.119 --> 00:23:53.200 You can't get the old version anymore here. Yeah, it's it's the same 291 00:23:53.200 --> 00:23:57.319 price. It's a few extra parts, and I put a lot of time 292 00:23:57.359 --> 00:24:02.920 into the software enhancement some things, but just keeping the same price on it. 293 00:24:02.960 --> 00:24:07.240 Scott wants other Scotty Scott, could a future update allow for a more 294 00:24:07.839 --> 00:24:12.920 minutia option for words per minute instead of the current three options it could. 295 00:24:14.519 --> 00:24:19.400 What I did was I used the expected math and the the actual standard words 296 00:24:19.440 --> 00:24:26.759 per minute says you have a seventy millisecond for a short and three times that 297 00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:30.720 or two hundred and ten milliseconds for a long, and then I think it's 298 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:37.480 five times that for inter character spacing. So that's what it's playback is using. 299 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:44.359 And when you're using the iambic keer, it's playing back at that rate, 300 00:24:44.559 --> 00:24:49.799 and it's using that that gap for the for the computation between the the 301 00:24:51.000 --> 00:24:56.039 inter inter character spacing. If you're using straight king, it tries to use 302 00:24:56.119 --> 00:25:00.200 that pretty much that same timing. I have to get out the math again 303 00:25:00.240 --> 00:25:04.720 that I was using for that, because it actually for the five words per 304 00:25:04.759 --> 00:25:08.559 minute, it's actually pretty generous. It's something on the order of a quarter 305 00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:12.559 second for a short and half a second for a long, and then the 306 00:25:12.640 --> 00:25:18.119 fifteen and the eighteen words. I'm sorry, the ten and the eighteen words 307 00:25:18.160 --> 00:25:23.359 permitted still used the seventy and the two hundred and ten milliseconds anyway, most 308 00:25:23.400 --> 00:25:26.440 people, from what I understand, are using the iambic key or anyway, 309 00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:32.720 so I hadn't hadn't had any requests to get any more precision in the words 310 00:25:32.720 --> 00:25:36.599 permitted setting. Hold on here, let me show you this if I can 311 00:25:36.640 --> 00:25:41.640 find it. Yeah, there we go. Okay. In transition, this 312 00:25:41.720 --> 00:25:47.039 is the PDF that you can download from the website. It's got all the 313 00:25:47.079 --> 00:25:52.119 assembly instructions that shows you all the parts, and there's a I did ship 314 00:25:52.160 --> 00:25:56.960 out on one or two recently that may have the typo in it. Right 315 00:25:56.960 --> 00:26:03.480 here, I had R six listed twice. Actually are five in R six, 316 00:26:03.519 --> 00:26:07.640 so I know I have to fix on that. But in addition to 317 00:26:07.680 --> 00:26:11.000 that, now it also shows you where on the board the parts are, 318 00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:15.720 so it makes it a lot easier when you're going through it. Well, 319 00:26:15.799 --> 00:26:21.119 these are all the ten K resistors that I need to put in, and 320 00:26:21.160 --> 00:26:26.480 then these are all the one microferred capacitors that I need to put in. 321 00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:32.279 So the instructions get very specific about where to put all the parts and how 322 00:26:32.319 --> 00:26:34.000 to put them in. Also, I had some problems. This is the 323 00:26:34.079 --> 00:26:41.680 larger screw. I had some problems with the original one in that the screws 324 00:26:41.720 --> 00:26:45.920 that I used for the LCD were very small, and I used the same 325 00:26:45.960 --> 00:26:51.559 size screws for the battery case. Well, I needed a bigger screw for 326 00:26:51.599 --> 00:26:55.319 the battery case, but the bigger screws wouldn't fit in the lcdast. So 327 00:26:55.440 --> 00:27:00.400 now the new kids actually have two different size screws. So that's a lot 328 00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:04.519 of fun packing up those not losing these little itty bitty nylons proved all right, 329 00:27:04.519 --> 00:27:07.319 guys, thanks for joining tonight. Sorry about the technical issues. Be 330 00:27:07.400 --> 00:27:10.960 watching and check out the links. So we're going to put the links to 331 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:14.160 everything we talked about tonight in the description, so if you're watching on Team 332 00:27:14.200 --> 00:27:15.200 Replay, go look at that. So seventy three all