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## Why Does This Exist? ## Why Does This Exist?
I needed a place to practice CW with actual human beings, and I wanted it to be as close as possible to what I'd experience on a radio. I also didn't have a lot of money to spend on equipment, but I did have a computer, phone, and gamepad. At the time I wrote it, there was nothing else like it on the Internet. Now there is VBand, which is very good, and you should check it out too. I needed a place to practice CW with actual human beings, and I wanted it to be as close as possible to what I'd experience on a radio. I also didn't have a lot of money to spend on equipment, but I did have a computer, phone, and gamepad. At the time I wrote it, there was nothing else like it on the Internet. Now there is VBand, which is very good, and you should check it out too.
## Do I need to be an amateur (ham) radio operator?
Absolutely not! I made Vail to help people learn and practice *Morse Code*, not amateur radio. While there are a lot of amateur radio people interested in Vail, there are a few who don't own any radio equipment at all (like the author)!
You may encounter people using morse code jargon and abbreviations. You are absolutely not required to use these if you don't want to, but they will make communications easier and faster if you learn them.
## Why do I hear a low tone? ## Why do I hear a low tone?
This is the "drop tone", and will be accompanied by an error. This is the "drop tone", and will be accompanied by an error.
This means the packet arrived so late, it can't be played in time. In technical terms: the timestamp of the packet plus the receive delay is less than the current time. It can't be scheduled to play, because we can't go back in time. This means the packet arrived so late, the time when it needed to be played has already passed. We can't go back in time to play it, so we play the drop tone to let you know things didn't work out.
This could be happening for three reasons: This could be happening for three reasons: