When I saw Adrian in Germany this summer I pressed him about that 200 WPM pretty hard but he swears it is legit. Still a bit difficult for me to get my head around, though.

That’s really gud Dennis. I top out at 30 WPM, beyond that I can follow the bulk of a conversation but in the smoke above 35. Of course, in a contest I can make it up to around 40-45 but you’re only copying callsigns mostly.

The contest callsigns that really throw me for a loop are the Slovenian’s that come in with those S5 or S55 callsigns at 40 plus WPM. I head explodes with all those dit’s that sounds like a machine gun !!!!!  😊

Gud stuff.

ZN

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Dennis Schaefer
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2024 10:10 PM
To: ADXA <[email protected]>
Subject: [ADXA] QRQ CW

I was amazed at the young man copying over 200 WPM CW.  Adrian reassured us that it is legitimate and I was not successful in finding any way to cheat or hack RUFZXp.  All I can say is that the human brain is marvelous, but mine is a little less marvelous than some!

We are trying a CW class here in the Russellville area.  We will probably have 4 or 5 students.   I looked at the Learn CW Online web site and I think we can use it in the class.  I tried some practice on words on the site and found that I could do reasonably well at 50 WPM but not well at all at 55.  

There are a lot of settings, and I set it for words up to 3 characters at 60 WPM.  I was surprised that I could get about 20%  correct.   It was the same at 65.  Not much at 70, though, so I reduced the word size to two characters.  Now I was copying some of them.    Things were pretty slim between 70 and 100 WPM, but I was able to copy one two letter word (MY) at 100 WPM.  

Now I’m intrigued - would it be possible to push my limits?  I always thought my physiological limit was about 53 WPM.   However, if I can get some of the very short words at well above that……..    

Will I ever copy callsigns at 70 WPM?  Almost certainly not.  Anything over two letters at 100 WPM?  Probably not.  It’s interesting, though.

73,

Dennis/RZ