[TenTec] code speed

[Curt Gamble]

Paul,
Well it was a salad bowl mixture of plain text,  coded 5 letter groups 
and those blasted parts and equipment requistions that
we had to send out containing numbers, letters, hyphens, slashes in 
seemingly random order and those were always fun.
                      73,  Curt WØALC


Glassrus wrote:

>Curt:
>Was that plain text or random characters?
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>Paul N8NOV
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>In 1963 at Radioman Class "A" school (6 mos) in Bainbridge, MD 
>graduation beside a written test was
>22 wpm correct copy "no mistakes" for 1/2 hour on a mill.  Sounds long 
>but 1/2 hour goes quick!
>                   73,  Curt  WØALC
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