[CW] Probably Fastest Morse Straight Key Operator I've Ever Heard

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

Chinese is sent with numbers because it is a pictographic language.  There
are lookup books to convert the numbers into the pictograph.

He's sending code groups. 20 groups per minute is 25 WPM English, so his
speed comes out 25 GPM so that would be 31.25 in WPM.

He's sending "cut numbers": A=1. U=2, V=3, 4=4, 5=5, 6=6, 7=B, 8=D, 9=N,
0=T.  No all countries use all the cut letters, but I've given you the
entire set.  5 can also be E but doing so makes the number 5 extremely
fast, so it's rarely if ever done except on very slow speed sending.  (When
shifting from 500 kHz to 512 kHz we sent "UP EAU" for "UP 512" - everyone
knew what it meant.

So the only characters are what's above.  He's sending number code for
Chinese language.

Here's what he sends:

=
5NU6 N5UT TA3U 45N7 37DT 46A7 U4A7 DA34 N56D 63DT
63AN D4N7 675A 5NTA U34T TA3U 6U4D 7UDN 5T76 4D35
6T73 4AUD 657N 3ATD 6N45 T74U 5DNU 467A 4D3T 43N5
T753 AUN6 4UAD 3DN4 5T67 7T

The whole transmission takes 71 seconds.  Each row above with the two
exceptions of the row with = alone and the last row have 10 groups of 4
characters in them.

Each dot is 43 ms in length (there is room echo). (I used Audacity, and
remembered the dot to interelemtnt space ration was 1:1, cut the total
length of the echoing dot in half).  43ms = 0.043 seconds.

Remembering two equations from my FCC examinations.

Time of dit in seconds = 1.2/WPM
Speed in  WPM = 1.2/(Time of dit in seconds)

So WPM = 1.2/0.043 = 27.9 WPM.

He is sending at 28 WPM.

Nice and he's fast.  I've heard operators sending this fast, few amateurs
but enough professionals to notice them.

One was Frank Estrada, a Cuban Point-to-Point operator who worked for TRT
(Tropical Radio Telegraph) in Slidell, Louisiana.  He escaped communist
Cuba and was driving a taxi in Miami when the vice president of TRT took
his taxi and found out what he used to do and hired him on the spot.

73
DR
N1EA
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