Re: K3: QRQ high-speed QSK

Posted by Barry on Sep 22, 2010; 6:46pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/K3-QRQ-high-speed-QSK-tp5057956p5560273.html

W8JI wrote

Who the heck is copying that and what are they copying???

The highest speed record for a long time, of copying
unexpected text, was only around 70-80 WPM. That record held
the whole time I was growing up, and it was from the 30's I
think.

It is certainly impossible to copy 300 WPM without decoding.

I have some nagging questions about these speed claims.

Tom - I was reviewing some of the archived posts and ran across this one.
FYI, QSOs at 100 WPM happen on 40 CW and on the Internet (iCW).  This is copying in one's head, not on paper.  There are a handful of guys, and one YL, who have broken the 200 WPM barrier with RUFZ, copying a single callsign at that speed.  I forget who was first - either Goran, YT7AW or Fabian, DJ1YFK, both of whom I've met at the HST competition - and they look normal :.)

There are also some incredibly fast eastern EUs who copy very high speeds on paper with a shorthand system.  I presented at the Contest Forum in Dayton 4-5 years ago and showed a picture of what the shorthand looks like.  McElroy's ~75 WPM (on paper) record is long gone.

Barry W2UP