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I'm having trouble understanding the difference in character speed Vs. effective speed.
Could someone explain it?. also I have a problem with writing the code instead of the letter ie "--." for "g" then I try to translate it back to the letter, its a real handicap. I wish I could get rid of this habit.

Character speed: The speed of each single character (letter, figure, ...) in itself.

Effective speed: The actual number (well, approximately) of words (each 5 characters) sent in one minute.

If both are the same, the spacing between the letters is "standard", 3 dit-lengths spaces between two letters. If the effective speed is lowered, the spaces become longer, but the characters itself remain at the same speed. The effective speed always has to be slower or equal as the character speed.

Well, as to writing the received code as dots and dashes, that's obviously not a good idea. Try to increase the character speed to a level where each letter can be heard as a "sound" and try to work with that speed. At a reasonable speed (like 20wpm characters, 10-15wpm effective) you'll soon find it much easier to write the right letter right away :)

73, Fabian

Thanks Fabian, your explanation made it clear.
About the second question, I'll try that. I noticed when I go to a slower character speed it becomes harder to define by sound. right now I'm at the default 15-5.
Thanks again and 73, N1UVW

Hallo Fabian, i noticed that the semicolon,exclamationmark,ampersand and underscoresign are not correct in the system.
As example semicolon should be -.-.- but in the system it is -.-.-. so a extra point at the end.
I mailed several times about it but get never respons.Maybe by this way i hope so.
With regards, Jan Zijlstra

Hi Jan,

it depends on what we consider "correct" :-)

These are according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code

semicolon = -.-.-.
exclamation mark = -.-.--

The ampersand is encoded as "es" ("and") for practical reasons, but maybe changing it to "AS" would be a good idea.

Underscore is not implemented here.

I know that for non-standard signs there are various country specific norms that are not compatible. For example in the nordic countries, "..--." is used for exclamation mark (I hear it regularly on the air), whereas the rest of the world really never uses the "official" exclamation mark sign as far as I know of. Similarly, in Cyrillic Morse, a full-stop (.) is encoded as six dots (......) wheres the comma is encoded as .-.-.- (i.e. what we use as full-stop internationally)...

73
Fabian