We might have to recalibrate that down about 10 WPM. I downloaded good ole RUFZ just now and saw that I could catch a few call signs at 50+. But that's a lot easier than copying whole sentences.

I always enjoyed those CW copying contests too. Once at the Little Rock hamfest I entered and Dennis did not, which cleared the way for me to win a cool Kent paddle that I still cherish.

I think maybe, as J. said, Dennis and I may have gone head to head once and tied, if that's even possible? But then later we had a 'grudge match'. Boy, I went in like sheep to the slaughter on that one. Dennis had this MFJ CW workout machine wired directly into his brain and it turned him into a cyber CW copying machine that could beat the skimmer. I didn't even get out of the chute. I'm up for a rematch but give me about five years to practice.

Trying to increase your speed is fun and you learn some stuff about your inherent limitations. The OTs used to always say that you must learn to copy behind if you're going to get fast. But my short term memory buffer doesn't work that way. I can't be typing what I heard several seconds ago while continuing to add the text that's coming in right now. I have to stay near real-time.

Of course, head copy and just taking notes is so much easier than writing/typing everything, as you're just trying to get the jist. I can probably do that at 35 to 40, but I wonder if I could even do the required one minute of perfect copy at 20 WPM as I once did for the Extra?

Keep slapping those paddles!

Nick, WA5BDU

On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 11:46 PM J. Setcer <j.setcer@gmail.com> wrote:

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.
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That's how I remember it.
= QJ

- QJ
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