Curt:
It looks like navy operators were pretty fast. The story I hear from
K2VX was from army experience. He was in Greenland and the atmospherics
were so bad that voice couldn't get through, so he taught the other ops
CW. They were slow, but the messages got through.
I know a couple of hams who are ex- USN and USCG. I'll ask then how fast
they went.
I understand that special ops E8 commo guys still learn CW.
73,
Bob WB2VUF
Curt Gamble wrote:
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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