[CW] High Speed Morse Claims

[martin.odenbach at t-online.de]

Thanks for forwaring my email.
The last sentence should read :
 
This record of 1000 LPM was certified. It's hard to believe
but nevertheless true.
 
Sorry for the confusion...
 
Martin
 
 
 
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Betreff: [CW] High Speed Morse Claims
Datum: 2022-09-13T03:34:13+0200
Von: "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea at arrl.net>
An: "CW Reflector" <cw at mailman.qth.net>
 
 
 
Via MorseCode reflector about Morse Speeds
 
On 9/12/2022 3:18 PM, martin.odenbach at t-online.de
<mailto:martin.odenbach at t-online.de>  wrote:

    I am member of some speed clubs, all of them measure
    the speed in letters per minute in PARIS mode.
    100 LPM is equivalent to 20 words per minute.

    HSC High Speed Club >125 letters per minute
    VHSC Very high speed club >200 LPM
    Super high speed Club >250 LPM
    Extremly high speed Club >300 LPM (60 wpm)

    You need up to 5 sponsors who confirm that you are able
    to hold the minimum speed - which each of these clubs
    require - in qsos of at least 30 minutes. The sponsors themselves
    have to be member of the "desired" speed club, of course.

    When I became member of all of these clubs, I was about
    26 yrs young and did more or less nothing else then
    excercising extreme speed cw. Oh, I forgot to mention
    that the use of computers was forbidden - for listening
    as well as for keying. Electronic keyers were ok :-)
    I used a wonderful very heavy self made sensoric keyer with an
    ETM-1C electronic which was changed to enable it for 70
    and more wpm (> 350 LPM).

    These days, I was permanently able to copy 350 LPM
    which would be 70 wpm PARIS norm. A few of my buddies
    these days were better = faster. The best cw Operator I ever
    heard (a good friend of mine) is DF4KV. He performs like a
    machine... with an old Vibrokeyer, fluently in german and
    english. He invented the PACTOR System, together with
    DL6MAA, another absolutely outstanding cw enthusiast.
    They never met in person during the development of PACTOR,
    they communicated via cw.

    There are regular international speed contests in different modes.
    One of them is a simulation of contest traffic. In this mode,
    the world record is held from the german ham DL1YFK with
    one thousand letters per minute - this is 200 wpm.
    When you hear your own call sign in this speed, you think
    that there was some very short "click" in the line.

    This record of 1000 wpm was certified. It's hard to believe
    but nevertheless true.

    Martin
    DK4XL
    waa #025 :-)


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