My Conditional Class code exam in 1954, administered by an Extra Class ham, was mixed code groups (5-letter as I recall) sent from an old Signal Corps manual at 15 wpm or so with a bug. I imagine that a few others who lived in the boondocks had similar experiences. The rules, of course, called for plain language text.
Jerry AI6L -----Original Message----- From: lstavenhagen [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 1:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: Decoding high speed CW Oops, my apologies: one of those was me, my excuse will have to be that it was in 1973 and I guess those memories are no longer what they used to be! I probably mixed that up with my code practice tapes, which definitely did have 4 letter code group parts.... 73, LS W5QD Mike Morrow-3 wrote >> Code groups were never part of ham exams at any speed. > > Exactly! Yet some report, even here in the past few days, that their ham > Morse exams were random character code groups. Thanks for information to > the contrary that can be neither doubted nor disputed! > > 73, > Mike / KK5F ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
