[Elecraft] Human CW copy speed

[Fabian Kurz]

On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 08:02:45AM -0700, Mike Sexsmith wrote:
> I believe Bill Coleman wrote:
> 
> >"That said, no one can copy a 99 wpm CW signal. The top QRQ guys are
> around 60 wpm."
> 
> In speaking with Chuck Adams K7QO last fall over the phone he indicated to 
> me that he had been clocked at 107 wpm on copying ability (I believe a 
> record at that time...)

The current record in RufzXP (the successor of the old DOS-Software
RUFZ by DL4MM) is 916 LpM / 183.2 WpM, for single callsigns. Held by
YO8RJV and myself.
The old software was only capable of 735LpM/147WpM and quite a few
persons copied that speed; the new RufzXP version doesn't have a speed
limit, and I am sure very soon the 200 WpM barrier will fall.

Current RufzXP-Highscore-List: http://www.rufzxp.net/toplist.htm

Also PED used to be popular for QRQ training, running 150 QSOs in 10
minutes at 100 WpM is great fun; here is a recording I made:
http://dl0tud.tu-dresden.de/~dj1yfk/1min.wav

Of course this is only true for copying single callsigns. In plain text,
there are numerous persons I know of (and I count myself to them) who can
copy approximately 80 WpM.

Most normal QRQ QSOs on the bands are limited to about 60WpM though,
mostly due to limited transmitting capabilities (unless keyboards are
used)...

-- 
Fabian Kurz, DJ1YFK * Dresden, Germany * http://fkurz.net/
Online log: http://dl0tud.tu-dresden.de/~dj1yfk/log.html
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