That is pretty impressive. When I was first a ham, one of the locals was W7QYA, Flo, a school teacher not far away. I had managed to crank my speed up to 40 (with some struggle) but she said that was painfully slow for her. Her nominal speed was 65 wpm. I have yet to get much above 40.
On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 12:47 PM Wayne Burdick <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > 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:[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] -- --w8lvn-- ______________________________________________________________ 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]
