Hi Buddy:
I suspect you don't know K7JA, who has, for the past 30+ years, been one of
the WORLD'S TOP CW CONTEST OPS! Chip can run 'em at 40-45 WPM just as
easily as he can run 'em at 25 WPM. And, I'll bet, that if Ken's been
Chip's contesting 'partner', he's no slouch either.
It' s just that they were sending at a speed reasonable enough to fully
ensure 100 percent copy regardless of the amount of background QRM.
73,
Tom Hammond N0SS
At 06:33 PM 5/14/05, Buddy Brannan wrote:
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 06:32:33PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It should also be remembered that the text message sender was the *world
> champion*, not someone selected at random.
To my mind, this point bears repeating and emphasis. With underline,
in bold, parentheses, and a large font.
Ken, please understand I'm not saying this to diminish your skill,
Chip's skill, or your accomplishment. But they pitted the *world
champion* SMS people against two mid-speed code operators--not two
ops at the top of their art, but fairly typical morse ops working at a
speed that isn't especially noteworthy in our community. While Ken and
Chip are both undoubtedly fantastic ops and obviously skilled in their
art, they aren't especially unusual, and this bears emphasis. The best
of the best still got beat out by good, though not atypical.
Vy 73!
--
Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV : Co-Mod. of http://www.assist.com/Pennsylvania
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