[CW] Ham Code Speed vs. Commercial Code Speed

[Donald Chester]

>
>The point is that ham radio QRQ doesn't automatically translate to the same
>speed of commercial traffic - and in many cases - it translates to about 
>1/2
>or 1/3 of the bragged speed of ham QSOs.

The same goes for voice.  You can carry on a conversation with another 
person at normal conversational speed and comfortably understand everything 
said.  Make a recording and try to transcribe every word of a similar 
conversation.  You will be surprised at how many words are actually 
unintelligible and the number of gaps that will show up in your transcript.  
We  depend on  context clues for much of our understanding of language, and 
subconsciously fill in the gaps.

The same goes for copying high speed cw in the head during casual ragchew 
type QSO's over the air.

Don K4KYV

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