[ADXA] Just another old local story - BDU & RZ

[Dennis Schaefer]

Actually, Jonathan gives me too much credit.  Nick and I share the record for LR hamfest competitions, but it is only 50 WPM.  Anytime I checked my copying ability, I topped out at about 52 WPM.  Must be a physiological limit of some kind, because I tried hard by listening a lot at 55 and 60 but it didn’t help.   
73,
Dennis

> On Aug 21, 2022, at 3:20 AM, jayw5jay <jayw5jay at cox.net> wrote:
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> Wow you're lucky to have such great Elmer's. I was trying to think when I first met Nick and Dennis. I just don't remember now. Both are class acts!!!
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> I have seen Dennis at a few of those shootouts. I think if anyone won those besides Dennis it was because he decided not to participate. Always great fun seeing a half a dozen guys trying to see how fast they could copy cw.
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> 73 jay..
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> Sent from my Galaxy
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: "J. Setcer" <j.setcer at gmail.com>
> Date: 8/20/22 11:46 PM (GMT-06:00)
> To: ADXA <adxa at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: [ADXA] Just another old local story - BDU & RZ
> 
> My two Elmers are W5RZ and WA5BDU.
> I was at the County Line Hamfest in Little Rock  I-30  (Pulaski/ Saline county line.)
> They had a "CW Shoot out at High Noon". Nick & Dennis went "head-to-head" in the CW Shoot Out. They Lived 10 miles apart. Best of friends.
> Other guys dropped out @ 40 - 45 WPM. 
> Dennis and Nick both passed 60 WPM.
> The guy with the cassette tapes, conducting the contest, said "I Don't know what to do guys. That is the last of my code tapes."
> Dennis & Nick shook hands and called it a tie.
> As far as I know, That Record still Stands.
> ---
> That's how I remember it.
> = QJ 
> 
> - QJ
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