[CW] High Speed Straight Key Sending - a recording

[David J. Ring, Jr.]

Several years ago on another Morse Code related list, I put out a request 
for a recording of Morse Code sent with a hand key at speeds above 25 wpm. 
Most of the replies through the reflector were:  "That's impossible".

I countered with the fact that 1st class radiotelegraph commerical licenses 
in Germany were required to send and receive 28 wpm by hand (by pencil and 
by straight key).

Off Ted Wagner's web site (he gives a link to this page), I found yet 
another recording from "The Early Days" of radio - this one from Victor 
records and the Marconi company - from 1917 - sent with a "standard morse 
key".

http://www.normanfield.fsnet.co.uk/morse.htm

The link to the recording of this disk (and extract only) is here:
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/newsite3/victor106.ram

Anyone care to measure how fast this is?

73

David N1EA