[UK-CONTEST] Morse dyslexia Top speed 246 wpm?

[Gerry Lynch]

Dave Sergeant wrote:
> On 5 Dec 2009 at 16:54, Ken Eastty wrote:
>
>   
>> Can anyone explain how DJ1YFK can manage 246 (two hundred and forty six)
>> wpm? I believe that that's just reading a single callsign, never the
>> less it's still amazing.
>>     
>
> Are you not sure it is not cpm (characters per minute) as widely used 
> by continental amateurs? 246cpm=49.2wpm (but I guess that is not 
> particularly fast...).

Er, yes, it's on the website as 1231cpm achieved by DJ1YFK, LZ4UU and EW8VK.

http://www.rufzxp.net/

You get those when you try to get lucky for an easy first callsign.  
There are scores in "normal play" of 177.8 *wpm* (DJ1YFK) and 183.2 wpm 
(YO8RJV), though.

73

Gerry GI0RTN