QRQ(1)

💖 QRQ — high speed Morse telegraphy trainer 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the QRQ(1) page from the User Manuals section, and no, you're not hallucinating, this is genuinely a whole tool for training your ears to copy Morse at silly speeds ✨

✨ NAME ✨

qrq — High speed Morse telegraphy trainer 🎧⚡

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

qrq

qrqscore [OPTION]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So qrq is an open source Morse code trainer that runs on various platforms and operating systems, and it's basically the spiritual twin of the classic DOS version of Rufz by DL4MM 🦋

Real talk though: this is not a "learn telegraphy from zero" situation. If that's what you need, go look at <http://radio.linux.org.au/> for CW learning software. qrq is here for a different mission — it's about levelling up your ability to copy callsigns at high speeds, which is exactly the kind of thing you need for contesting 👑

The flow is iconic, honestly. You start the software, you set up your parameters (speed, CW waveform…), and then the program sends 50 amateur radio callsigns at you. Copy a callsign correctly? Speed goes up 📈. Get it wrong? Speed goes down 📉. Points get awarded for correctly copied callsigns, and how many you get depends on the speed. It's giving main character energy, but for your ears.

There's a scoreboard/toplist living on the author's website at <https://fkurz.net/ham/qrqtop.php>. Your local toplist file can be synced with the online toplist using qrqscore -d, and you can upload your own top scores by invoking qrqscore -u. Slay 🫶

🦋 FILES 🦋

• qrqrc — Default configuration file 💅
• callbase.qcb — Database of amateur radio callsigns used by qrq. Other files may be loaded, so don't feel boxed in 🌸
• toplist — Default toplist file ⭐

qrq is looking for these files in the current directory, in ~/.qrq/ or in DESTDIR/share/qrq/ — and yes, that's the order, bestie, it checks them in exactly that order 🔍 In the latter case, ~/.qrq/ is created, for an user-specific toplist and configuration. So it makes a lil home for your personal stuff, cute ✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Fabian Kurz, DJ5CW <fabian@fkurz.net> — <https://fkurz.net/ham/qrq.html> 💜

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

morse(1) — go read that one too, iykyk 💖

💀 reminder for my own brain: qrqscore -d syncs, qrqscore -u uploads, and neither of those is a vibe, they're literal flags. no cap.

okay that's the whole page!! sending you so much love from the Linux side of the manual, dated January 2013 — yeah she's vintage but she ate and left no crumbs 🎀✨💅