[CW] 45 WPM Handkeying........

Sat, 25 Jan 2003 20:45:34 -0400

You could not have said he was sending "perfectly formed code" if you were
not able to copy--that is a self-contradiction. How can you be sure we was
not sending in "Egyptian" ?  = ;-)

73 Pedro KP3X..

----- Original Message -----
From: "K�HB" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: [CW] 45 WPM Handkeying........

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "kburrows" <[email protected]>
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> > It would be interesting to see if anyone could copy
> > the straight key at 45 wpm (if indeed it can be send that fast) I would
> > think it would be quite the mess...
>
> Back in my mis-spent youth I was a Navy RM aboard a destroyer bound from
Athens
> to Dubai.  If you glance at a map you'll see the route goes through the
Suez
> canal.  Ships transit the canal in convoys, one northbound and one
southbound.
> They meet each other and pass at a wide spot called the Great Bitter Lake.
> Protocol requires that if there is a man-o'-war in the convoy, she will
lead the
> convoy and carry the pilot.  Communications from the pilot ship to the
canal
> control was via CW to coordinate the passage so the convoys meet at the
proper
> time in this "wide spot in the road".
>
> Me being a hot shot, easily capable of copying 40-45WPM, got impatient
with the
> lowly 25WPM Egyptian sand-crab civilian on the circuit and asked him to
QRQ.
>
> BIG BIG mistake!!!!  He absolutely BURIED me, with perfectly formed code
on a
> hand key, in excess of my ability to copy.
>
> 73, de Hans, K0HB, ex-NHXW
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