Ron - Sometimes I think there must have been real compitions between operators. Maybe in the military. No firsthand experience here. I put in for radio school in 1964 but they sent me to cook and baker school. I worked with a guy who had been on a ship. He said that when someone challanged him, he removed the weight completly. He may have been braging. I just read a chapter from the novel "The Nymph and the Lamp" by Thomas Raddel.(sp?) A shore station was challanged by a ship operator. When the dust settled, the best operators on both side had been called into the contest. This was full contact Morse code. I just plunk along under 20wpm but I enjoy the mechanical keys. I like being in control of what I send. Rick - K7MW
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