[CW] Ham Code Speed vs. Commercial Code Speed

[Robert Maskill]

Donald Chester wrote:

>>
>> 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

I have always found that a CW Operator can be good or bad irrespective 
of the speed they use.......

CW is like any language we sometimes hear what we expect to hear not 
what is sent...

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Robert Maskill G4PYR
Peterborough Cambridgeshire
www.coastalradio.greater-peterborough.com