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

[Tom Hammond]

Guess I missed something here... is this hand-sent CW, I mean, sent via a 
straight key?

73,

Tom   N0SS

At 06:34 PM 12/19/04, Fabian Kurz wrote:
>On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 03:59:36PM -0700, R. Kline wrote:
> > 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????
>
>This speed is effective speed, so depending on if it's figures, letters
>or mixed groups, you have to multiply it with a certain factor to get
>the speed in PARIS. Also if you have an error in your transmission,
>you have to repeat the whole group in which you made the error, and in
>the end the speed is the number of valid transmitted letters/figures.
>In real QRQ QSOs most of the minor errors (h instead of s etc) are not
>a problem and will automatically be corrected by the receiving
>operator; in this competition errors are intolerable.
>
>Transmitting 5-groups which make no sense at all is also *much* more
>difficult than sending plain text or QSO text; just give it a try.
>
>This year's TX results, if anyone is interested:
>http://solair.eunet.yu/~s.ilic/hst_tx.htm
>
>73,
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>Fabian Kurz, DJ1YFK * http://fkurz.net/
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