[Hallicrafters] Code speed question.

[Joel Hallas]

Waldo,

Others have answered the speed question, but I've seen pictures of such 
receive installations (I'm pretty sure) and it looked like the National 
HRO was the standard receiver for that function. A good choice for its 
day I would think (at the risk of starting a religious war <g>).

Joel Hallas, W1ZR

Waldo Magnuson wrote:

>    In WWII, England had hundreds of monitoring radio sites listening 
> to the German military communications.  Most of the information was 
> fed to Bletchley Park, the secret and famous code breaking 
> installation NW of London.
>    CW (morse code) was primarily used for these communications and 
> mostly, maybe all, of the English operators were female.
>    I recently read that the MINIMUM speed required for the listeners 
> was 90 wpm.  Was code being sent at that speed and could large numbers 
> of people copy at that speed?
>    As I struggle with my 5 to 7 wpm, 90 sounds awfully fast.
> 73,  Skip Magnuson  W7WGM
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