If you want to learn code, this is the way!
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I ordered the online version. Received email confirmation that they will email me a code to download the product within 24 hours. Look forward to trying it!
I am going on a road trip soon. Is this the kind of thing that would work well for that @zmetzing?
Yes, but you also need to look at the printed material for each letter/number/symbol at least a few times before that. That way, when you hear “D”, you think “Dog Did It” and a playing-card with a cartoon of a dog pooping and looking a bit ashamed. (See how well I recall that image without even cracking open the box?)
It works amazingly well.
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Created way back in the 1830’s Morse Code never had the “@” symbol. Sort of makes it difficult to send internet addresses. That changed in 2014 when the new “@” symbol was officially added. The new symbol is the concatenated letters of “A” (dot-dash) and “C” (dash-dot-dash-dot) combined together without any space. So the most obvious question is why did they not use the letters “A” and “T”? That’s because the combined result of “A” and “T” would have been the letter “W”. However, there still is no exclamation point “!”.
Morse code still has a number of advantages for Amateur Radio Operators and particularly Amateur Radio operators who like to build things. It has the ability to be decoded in much weaker signals. So a CW radio putting out 1W has about the same legibility as a SSB radio putting out 75W - 100W. Combine this with how much easier the design and construction of CW radios (transmitters and receivers) are and Morse code and Making go together like bacon and eggs…
BTW, I have already heard back from the OP site and been given the code for the online deliverable product. Seems quite well done at this point.
No need to get all excited about that.
Yup, and considering how useful it can be to know Morse Code in an emergency where you need to MacGuyver something together, it’s a rewarding skill to learn. Even 5 WPM is useful.
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Once you get a good look at the material maybe you’ll give a demonstration of the product in your “build a transmitter” class. Sounds interesting, Something I’ve always wanted to learn, but never quite figured out how.
I was a comm officer in the USAF for a while and took all kinds of security, networking, antenna erection, electronics, remote telecom, systems, etc, but somehow missed out on morse code.
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@zmetzing learned Morse using this guys method years ago, and still remembers it despite not using regularly.
I’ve tried several methods over the years and have yet to be successful, so I don’t know how much value my opinion will have on this.
Once you get a good look at the material maybe you’ll give a demonstration of the product in your “build a transmitter” class. Sounds interesting, Something I’ve always wanted to learn, but never quite figured out how.
I can certainly give a demo of the product during the next Amateur Radio meeting (mid August).
learned Morse using this guys method years ago, and still remembers it despite not using regularly.
22 years, according to the receipt that I found. 
HERE is a website that has a morse code translator and trainer for anyone interested.
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@nicksilva That URL was awesome. Thank you for the link.
I was going to type the entire message in morse code but the talk app took it as gibberish.
BTW, fldigi does a good job of decoding Morse Code. When I’m rusty, I pop that up and have it listen along while I try to copy to paper. If I’ve done a horrible job or just have gotten lost on a QSO, I can glance up and get what I need from the screen. It takes discipline not to look up and watch it like a TV, but it is a very handy crutch when learning/re-learning CW.
Another group of users for Morse Code is those with speech difficulties and physical difficulties.
“The pre-requisites to Morse Code for access are ability to hit a switch with control for a length of time or two switches without that timing control, ability to count to five, emergent literacy/spelling skills. You do not need to be able to see or hear, you do not need to be able to control a mouse or mouse emulator, you don’t even need head control”
A variety of tools exist to support this use. Like tools that translate Morse Code to Speech and to Text. How mature they are now I did not know. I have not looked into for several years. But I should again.
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I originally learned Morse Code using SuperMorse on a DOS PC.
A common recommendation (Farnsworth method) was to set the speed at something like 15 wpm with 5 wpm spacing between letters so that the brain’s pattern matcher is trained to recognize each letter at the faster rate while still giving you a fighting chance to comprehend the message.
A popular commercial for a restaurant (Chilis?) at the time repeated the cadence dah-dah-dit-dit-dah-dah over and over. My mind became filled with commas whenever that ad came on.
I learned Morse Code back in the late 1960’s with a paper tape machine called an Instructograph Machine. The paper tapes were made at the 12 wpm rate with 5 wpm spacing in between. This method allowed one to learn the code quickly by the way it sounded, not by trying to figure out what was a dot or a dash. Just think of it as another language like Spanish, you hear the word “Uno” and automatically think “One”. No translation, soon you just know the letters by their sounds.