[CW] High Speed Morse Claims

[Bill Lanahan]

What type of copy was used for these contests? I’d assume you can’t copy too far behind if it were code groups or an unknown language, but that’s a guess on my part ( to me a couple of letters is behind ;-().

Great history, Tnx to both of you. 

73 wa2nfn

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> On Sep 11, 2022, at 9:41 PM, Joseph L. Pontek Sr. <v31jp1957 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Did you ever sit down and chat with Ted, while drinking? He could
> consume quite a bit. I did, myself, back in those days, but I think he
> out paced me!  8^) We were not racing and that is something I never
> did, but I did drink a lot back in those days. No, we did not do CW
> after, but he had no ill signs from drinking.
> 
> My late wife could type 155 WPM from dictation, similar to converting
> from CW to typing, you hear, then you spell out a word and then type.
> I know she typed quite a ways behind what she was hearing. I am not
> a typist, but she typed many of my letters when I was a manager, mainly
> because she hated my slow typing back then. 8^) I have little doubt Ted
> could do as claimed. I remember when my copy speed as at its highest,
> I was thinking if could touch type, mt CW copy might have even gotten
> higher. Twil never know.
> 
> 73, Joe, K8JP/K5
> 
> On 9/11/2022 6:50 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
>> These claims I always found difficult to believe but they came from
>> reliable sources, but they were all suitably embellished, like Ted
>> McElroy drinking a half pint of gin then letting the code test begin,
> -- 
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