[High-Speed-CW] Guinness World Records recognizes high-speed telegraphy achievement

[Mike D.]

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The ARRL Letter
Vol. 23, No. 48
December 10, 2004
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* Guinness World Records recognizes high-speed telegraphy achievement:

Guinness World Records Ltd has recognized the high-speed telegraphy
achievement of Andrei Bindasov, EU7KI. "On 6 May 2003 Andrei Bindasov
(Belarus) transmitted 216 marks of mixed text per minute during the 5th
International Amateur Radio Union World Championship in High Speed
Telegraphy in Belarus," the Guinness database listing states. Witnessing the
accomplishment in Minsk were HST International Referee Oscar Verbanck,
ON5ME, Region 1 Executive Committee member Panayot Danev, LZ1US, and IARU
Region 1 HST Coordinator Oliver Tabakovski, Z32TO. Bindasov says he received
the official certificate from Guinness November 24. Bindasov also sent 271
letters per minute and 230 figures per minute during those phases of the
2003 HST competition <http://www.qsl.net/yo4kca/hstrules.htm>.


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