[Elecraft] OT: Decoding high speed CW

[Jerry T. Dowell]

My Conditional Class code exam in 1954, administered by an Extra Class ham,
was mixed code groups (5-letter as I recall) sent from an old Signal Corps
manual at 15 wpm or so with a bug. I imagine that a few others who lived in
the boondocks had similar experiences. The rules, of course, called for
plain language text.

Jerry  AI6L

-----Original Message-----
From: lstavenhagen [mailto:lstavenhagen at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 1:00 PM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: Decoding high speed CW

Oops, my apologies: one of those was me, my excuse will have to be that it
was in 1973 and I guess those memories are no longer what they used to be!

I probably mixed that up with my code practice tapes, which definitely did
have 4 letter code group parts....

73,
LS
W5QD


Mike Morrow-3 wrote
>> Code groups were never part of ham exams at any speed.
> 
> Exactly!  Yet some report, even here in the past few days, that their ham
> Morse exams were random character code groups.  Thanks for information to
> the contrary that can be neither doubted nor disputed!
> 
> 73,
> Mike / KK5F