On 2022-11-10 21:21, Bill Lederer wrote:
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 <n...@elecraft.com>
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
Reminds me of an op I knew that could copy RTTY in his head.
73,
-- Dave, N8SBE
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