Funny story.... Last Field Day my son and a friend of his went camping with our group. Neither of them are CW operators (yet), but they did know the alphabet. They borrowed a MCU-controlled code-practice generator from another op and were competing to see who could copy single letters at the fastest rate.
When they got stuck at around 20 WPM, I said, "how fast does that thing go?" It apparently would go much, much higher, into Morse nosebleed range. Just for fun, I asked them to set it up to generate random English text at 45 WPM. I decoded enough of it to convince them that this code speed was in my head-copy range. Then they started bumping it up another 5 WPM at a time--a challenge! I was in some sort of zone that day. Maybe it was the sunshine; maybe the idyllic sound of blue jays; maybe the 4-pack of White Claw I'd scored at the liquor store. In the end I managed to copy several words at 70 WPM. I'll never know if they were inspired or demoralized. They shook their heads and went off on a 5 mile hike. Wayne N6KR > On Nov 10, 2022, at 10:16 AM, Alan Geller <alan_geller2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Yea Wayne, thats the terrific Elecraft attitude that keeps your customer base > strong and loyal. > Its called, “ lets all have fun and learn something” Hooray for the serious > high speed ops, a > Lot of ex Navy guys, but its pretty easy to spot the slow lane and ease back > into the fast lane. > > Happy Veterans Day youse guys….K6ADG > > > > > > I'm in this group. Casual contest operation, usually QRP, mostly CW, and > almost always logging by hand. > > I greatly appreciate all of the very serious ops out there who approach this > with a high level of skill and give everyone -- regardless of ability -- that > next QSO. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
