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

[Fred Adsit]

Perfectly-formed code is easy to recognize, Pedro.. he is simply saying he
could not quite mentally process it.. big difference. It is very unlikely
the Egyptian would send in Arabic, for that would be no test of Hans'
ability at all and Arabic is a VERY difficult language to learn - people who
are not from that part of the world and who can master it are highly valued
by our military and by our NSA. There may be some question about whether he
stayed with the hand key if it was perfectly formed, however. No way to
know. Some people can send like a machine, using a bug. If I want to, I can,
but  usually use it to insert "character" or "emotion" into my sending.
Making a bug sound like a machine means having it carefully pre-adjusted to
a given speed, in my experience. The Egyptian, more likely than not, either
had a bug set that way, or else he WAS using a hand key.. Bugs simply do not
inherently sound like hand keys. The dit contact action alone gives almost
all bugs away, no matter how much filing and anti-bounce measures have been
taken.

73- Fred NY2V

----- Original Message from KP3X-----

From: "Pedro J. Santa" <pjs123@attglobal.net>
To: "=?iso-8859-1?B?S9hIQg==?=" <K0HB@ARRL.ORG>, <cw@mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [CW] 45 WPM Handkeying........
Date: 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 -----

From: "K�HB" <k0hb@earthlink.net>
To: <cw@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: [CW] 45 WPM Handkeying........

> [deletions made here]
> 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