[CQ-Contest] Guinness World Records recognizes high-speed telegraphy achievement

[Fabian Kurz]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 02:21:12PM -0500, Bob Wanderer wrote:
> Fine -- but at what rate can he receive with 100% correct
> copy?
> 73, Bob AA0CY
> 

Hi Bob,

at the HST 2004 in Nis EU7KI copied letter groups at 260 BpM, figures
also at 260 BpM and mixed groups at 210 BpM, over a period of one
minute (the speed is effective speed, not PARIS; I don't know what the
factor is, but it guess it's around 320 for letters, 460 for figures).

At these speeds the art is to write the copied groups down; the top
competitors from EU, UA and YO use a special shorthand system to do
this.
 
The full results of the receiving competition can be found at
http://solair.eunet.yu/~s.ilic/hst_rx.htm

As you might notice, most of the calls are totally unknown on the air,
most of them have never made a QSO. They consider High Speed
Telegraphy as a sport which has little to do with ham radio.

73, Fabian
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