[GreenKeys] Request for Feedback

[Jim Walls]

On 12/19/2010 12:49 PM, Jim Haynes wrote:
> Well I'm glad to see the 100 wpm, because it allows showing off what
> the 28 can do.  It's not something I would watch for much length
> of time, because it is rather frenetic, and the rhythm of 60 wpm is
> what is familiar for wire service news and that sort of thing.  I
> don't have any interest in 75 wpm because I don't think I've ever seen
> even a Model 15 running at that speed; it just doesn't seem to have been
> a popular speed.   So I vote for keeping both speeds available.


Just for interest, a friend of mine and I used to regularly use 75 speed 
between us on a 2M simplex channel.  Both of us had 3 speed 
transmissions in our 28s and both of us could type faster than 60 speed 
so by going to 75 at least I would not run into the locked keyboard.  
Even going to 100 speed was not enough for Stan to not run into the 
locked keyboard as he could type in excess of 125WPM).  And although we 
ran 100 now and then, I agree that it just sounded frantic (to use the 
word that several others have said).

Jim