[CW] High Speed Morse Claims

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I am given to understand that some.people can read teletype signals. My memory is that Ted McElroy read something like 75 WPM. Since pictures of him at the contest show him wearing headphones I assume it was continental morse. Sent from my Galaxy
-------- Original message --------From: martin.odenbach at t-online.de Date: 9/12/22  9:32 PM  (GMT-08:00) To: CW Reflector <cw at mailman.qth.net> Subject: Re: [CW] High Speed Morse Claims Thanks for forwaring my email.
The last sentence should read :
 
This record of 1000 LPM was certified. It's hard to believebut nevertheless true.
 
Sorry for the confusion...
 
Martin
 
 
 
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Datum: 2022-09-13T03:34:13+0200
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On 9/12/2022 3:18 PM, martin.odenbach at t-online.de wrote:
I am member of some speed clubs, all of them measurethe speed in letters per minute in PARIS mode.100 LPM is equivalent to 20 words per minute.HSC High Speed Club >125 letters per minuteVHSC Very high speed club >200 LPMSuper high speed Club >250 LPMExtremly high speed Club >300 LPM (60 wpm)You need up to 5 sponsors who confirm that you are ableto hold the minimum speed - which each of these clubsrequire - in qsos of at least 30 minutes. The sponsors themselveshave to be member of the "desired" speed club, of course.When I became member of all of these clubs, I was about26 yrs young and did more or less nothing else thenexcercising extreme speed cw. Oh, I forgot to mentionthat the use of computers was forbidden - for listeningas well as for keying. Electronic keyers were ok :-)I used a wonderful very heavy self made sensoric keyer with anETM-1C electronic which was changed to enable it for 70and more wpm (> 350 LPM).These days, I was permanently able to copy 350 LPMwhich would be 70 wpm PARIS norm. A few of my buddiesthese days were better = faster. The best cw Operator I everheard (a good friend of mine) is DF4KV. He performs like amachine... with an old Vibrokeyer, fluently in german andenglish. He invented the PACTOR System, together withDL6MAA, 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 withone thousand letters per minute - this is 200 wpm.When you hear your own call sign in this speed, you thinkthat there was some very short "click" in the line.This record of 1000 wpm was certified. It's hard to believebut nevertheless true.MartinDK4XLwaa #025 :-)



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