Connect Morse Key to Iphone

Posted: February 8, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Ham Radio, iOS, Morse Code | 3 Comments

How to connect morse key to an iPhone? Using the buttons on the standard headphones does not work, as the apple interface does not provide low-level access to low-level events like button-down. The idea (R1, R2) will be (1) put a signal to one stereo channel (2) receive the same signal on the input channel (small resistor will simulate mic) (3) detect tone level changes for input channel -> real time-morse (4) put side-tone & co to remaining stereo channel.

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  • 1(Tip) – Key (Ground)
  • 2 – Ear (Contact)
  • 3 – Ear (Ground)
  • 4(Ground) – R2(46,6k) – Key 1
  • 4(Ground) – R3(22k) – Key 2
  • 4(Ground) – R1(1k) – 3

I got a prototype running with irmc-ios (R4) and the same physical interface also works with iMorsix (R3).
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(R1) Hijacking Power from […] Audio Interface
(R2) Sources: hijack-main
(R3) App: iMorsix
(R4) App: irmc-ios

Morse Decoder Test – iPhone / iPad

Posted: May 20, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Ham Radio, Morse Code | Leave a comment

There are three morse decoders in the App Store. Same test case for all of them: “CQ CQ CQ DE DG
D6FL DG6FL K” from memory of my palm paddle with 20wpm.

Results:

  1. MorseDecoder (HotPaw Productions)
    Seems to work
  2. MorseDec (Luca Facchinetti)
    Room for improvement
  3. Morsepad (Black Cat Systems)
    Does not work at all