[CW] CW Speed Limit ???

[N2EY at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/7/2005 6:51:47 AM Eastern Standard Time, "Brian Carling" <bcarling at cfl.rr.com> writes:

>On 7 Mar 2005 at 6:32, N2EY at aol.com wrote:
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>> How many hams can do 36 wpm on fading circuits?
>
>That depends on how bad the fading is!!
>
>I can copy 36 wpm.  A lot of hams can.

Me too - under good conditions.

Under good conditions, the ARRL recommended 5 ms rise/fall times are good to 60 wpm.

If 200 Hz is too narrow, tell BoD and FCC to make it 300 Hz or whatever.

As K0HB points out, 200 Hz effectively excludes almost all modes except PSK31 and Morse/CW. Even 170 shift 60 wpm RTTY is too wide.

>I was in a CW copying contest once at the Cedars of Lebanon 
>Hamfest
>in Tennessee. The contest winner copied 57 wpm successfully. 
>I dropped out after about 42 wpm.

COOL!
>
>There was at least one other individual who beat me...
>
One night, some years back, while puttering around the shack I came across what I thought was W1AW sending code practice.

I left it on as background and continued what I was doing. But it took some concentration on my part to head-copy what was being sent.

Then I heard "....END OF 45 WPM DE W1NJM....."

73 de Jim, N2EY