[Elecraft] OT: Decoding high speed CW

[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft]

Hi folks - We closed this OT thread yesterday due to the excessively high number 
of postings.

73,

Eric
Moodulator
/elecraft.com/

On 4/1/2016 9:17 AM, Jerry T. Dowell wrote:
> 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
>
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