wow - hand copying 40wpm? My hat is off to you hi hi. When I took my Extra exam back in the early 90's, it was right at the limit of my ability to scribble to copy down the text at 20wpm and you had to do a full 5 minutes of it. My right arm was burning pretty good at the end of the tape...
Nowadays I just copy with my chin sitting in my hands even at speeds below 20wpm and jot down highlights..... I just can't send worth a darn and I never have been able to master the paddles; again at my Extra exam I was sooooo glad they'd long since changed the rules and I wasn't going to have to send at 20wpm for 1 min with no mistakes hi hi. So I'll gladly give up the paddles for the keyboard on CW. I got to listen to a great conversation on 40M last night between two gentlemen describing 350+ countries worked _while mobile_ using a couple of hamsticks. It was all going on somewhere between 25 to 30wpm and I was having a great time "reading the mail", but dismayed that I couldn't have joined in using just my paddles. Yeah I know, practice practice hi hi. But soon as I get the laptop working on the table, sorry, the Bencher is going in the bag with the K2 for portable ops hi hi. Still with PSK31, trying it out with cocoaModem, I find I can't keep the buffer full. I can get ahead on simple plain language but throw some numbers and punctuation in there and the buffer catches up pretty quick. 45 baud RTTY is able to keep up with me no problem. Anyway, OT I know... 73 LS W5QD -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/K3-sound-cards-and-PSK31-tp4852409p4853677.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ 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
