Speaking as an operator that doesn't use manually generated Morse all that much, I would think that using a mouse in this manner would not be ergonomic and would lead to repetitive strain injuries (carpal tunnel, etc.). Besides that there becomes the issue of retraining your muscle memory when you want to learn to use a "real" iambic set of paddles, i.e. another learning curve that can be avoided as a paddle uses the thumb and forefinger which seems awkward with a mouse where the forefinger and second finger are used. Also, a paddle allows the wrist to be at a near natural position when the arm is laying on the operating desk. Many ops simply roll the wrist slightly to apply pressure with the thumb or forefinger when using paddles. A nice set of paddles like the Kent model can be purchased for a relatively reasonable price and feature adjustments of each gap which controls the amount of movement of each paddle and spring tension of each can be adjusted independently. My experience is to avoid the Bencher paddles as the spring tension is not adjustable. I had thought the cwdaemon package accepted input from a serial or parallel port but it seems to be output only on those ports. It can be configured to output sound which allows it to serve as a code practice oscillator. I'm not sure if any of these other packages offer what you want: https://blends.debian.org/hamradio/tasks/morse (73) - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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