Re: [TenTec] code speed

[Curt Gamble <W0ALC@Mindspring.Com>]

Bob,
I am sure speeds varied but on Navy circuits even with a straight key 20 
wpm would have been probably average.
Mainly operators were copying FOX bcst. (one way) and those were in the 
30 to 35 wpm range.
Though I remember once a ship that was fully crypto gear etc. had a 
equipment breakdown and they had to get
on CW and no one appeared to be able to copy the higher speeds so the 
Fleet bcst operator would group all of'
this ships MSG's together and send about 12 wpm which must have been 
embarrassing to them and made the other
ships operators laugh.

Another funny incident on a Navy practice cw circuit in Norfolk in mid 
60's some operator sent the following.
"Mississippi sissies are sissier than Tennessee sissies" as fast as 
possible. They called all the logs in so they could
figure who sent it and this individual got a few demerits on that 
one.            73,  Curt WØALC  Cedaredge, CO
Bwana Bob wrote:

> Don't know if there was an "official" speed, but K2VX, who had post war 
> mil experience in Greenland, once told us that the practical speed for 
> ops using straight keys under field conditions and with the usual 
> atmospherics was 8 wpm.
>
>
>                                         73,
>
>                                         Bob WB2VUF
>
> John wrote:
>  
>
> > Does anyone know the usual speed that radiomen during WWII used ?
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