Shortwave wrote:
100 wpm, while it sounds fast, is slow. i knew a guy who could copy fsk
by ear up to about 75 wpm. back in the day when i was really good at it,
i could copy up to 60 wpm of machine code with damn near 90% accuracy -
i can still do 40 wpm morse with that kind of accuracy, but I begin to
loose it after that.
a great trick i learned from my mother actually (who was a USCG radio
operator at the cape cod radio station during ww two) was to transmit
with my left hand and write with my right. im probably the only one who
does that - at least that ive ever seen.
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Wow! I can't imagine copying 60 WPM in Morse. I was proud of myself
for making it to 25 wpm, but I was only at it for about 8 mos. in the
Army. I think you know what I mean when I say, I was at the point
where it became easier each day. The problem of gaining speed was that
we had to operate at the speed of the slowest operator in the net. Bout
18 WPM. My goal was to get up to 35 wpm so that I could copy press.
But, alas, not to happen....

Happy boating, Norm