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Many of you have suggested in the past that the SWLing Post join an affiliate links program. I highly recommend it!Ĭlick here to check out Morse Runner and download. In short: Morse Runner is giving me the courage to do my first CW park activation. If you’re a seasoned CW contester, pump up the speed and the activity level then you’ll feel like you’re on the Heard Island DXpedition! The screen shot above shows the settings I used for this very tame session with no large pile-ups. Here’s sample audio from a session this morning:
#CODERUNNER CW CRACK#
If you select the “LIDs” Band Conditions setting, it’ll crack you up with how accurately it portrays annoying operators who either deliberately or unintentionally try to interfere! Morse Runner is so convincing that when I’m in the middle of a big pile-up, I honestly forget I’m communicating with a computer application! I get some of the same excitement and the–let’s be frank– anxiety I would get on the air during a live CW pile-up. Quite often I’ll accurately reply to a weak station and they’ll send “AGN?” and I repeat their report until they copy it.

Morse runner has band condition settings you can select like: QRN, QRM, Flutter, QSB and–yes–even LIDs. If you reply with an incorrect call, the other station will repeat their call until you correct it. Your job is to then start logging those stations accurately from the pile-up. Within a few CQ calls, you’ll hear anywhere from one to several stations answer your CQ (depending on your settings). You simply set a few parameters like your call sign, max CW speed, pitch, and bandwidth, then press the “run” button and call CQ by pressing the F1 key on your keyboard. Screenshot of Morse Runner (click to enlarge)
