[CQ-Contest] Guinness World Records recognizes high-speedtelegraphy achievement

[R. Kline]

hmmmmmmm......
If I remember correctly (?), there are, on the average about 5 characters to
a word in plain text.  So, 216 characters per minute would be about 43 words
per minute.  That is a very respectable speed, but surely some high speed CW
operators are faster than that. Am I missing something here????
73,
Riki K7NJ - 4X4NJ

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high-speedtelegraphy achievement


Fine -- but at what rate can he receive with 100% correct
copy?
73, Bob AA0CY

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telegraphyachievement


Wonder what kind of rates he is capable of?


***************
The ARRL Letter
Vol. 23, No. 48
December 10, 2004
***************

* Guinness World Records recognizes high-speed telegraphy
achievement:

Guinness World Records Ltd has recognized the high-speed
telegraphy
achievement of Andrei Bindasov, EU7KI. "On 6 May 2003 Andrei
Bindasov
(Belarus) transmitted 216 marks of mixed text per minute
during the 5th
International Amateur Radio Union World Championship in High
Speed
Telegraphy in Belarus," the Guinness database listing
states. Witnessing
the accomplishment in Minsk were HST International Referee
Oscar Verbanck,
ON5ME, Region 1 Executive Committee member Panayot Danev,
LZ1US, and IARU
Region 1 HST Coordinator Oliver Tabakovski, Z32TO. Bindasov
says he
received the official certificate from Guinness November 24.
Bindasov also
sent 271 letters per minute and 230 figures per minute
during those phases
of the 2003 HST competition
<http://www.qsl.net/yo4kca/hstrules.htm>.

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