Most of the current radio amateurs are using digital modes now, like FT31, but I think everyone should be able to send out an SOS, and location, if the need arises. Like WW3 :-) It looks like keyboard to keyboard communication is the wave of the future, especially with the rise of low power weak signal modes. JT65 lets you bounce signals off of the moon, see WSJT if interested. It's amazing what modern signal analysis can do with just a few watts of power.... around the world.

My ultimate goal with this program is to make it an encoder, to generate perfect morse from whatever I type on my keyboard, or generate with a Perl program. It would only take a few slight modifications to make it do that. But I need to understand the responses. One way cw is kindof useless. :-) Nobody, as of yet, has made a cw decoder that really works.... its my new Holy Grail. Even the high priced commercial encoder/decoders don't work on decode, if you carefully read the reviews, there are too many errors from the many variables. It seems the human ear and brain is still the best decoder. Yet, I think there has to be a way.