Curt:
It looks like navy operators were pretty fast. The story I hear from
K2VX was from army experience. He was in Greenland and the atmospherics
were so bad that voice couldn't get through, so he taught the other ops
CW. They were slow, but the messages got through.
I know a couple of hams who are ex- USN and USCG. I'll ask then how fast
they went.
I understand that special ops E8 commo guys still learn CW.
73,
Bob WB2VUF
Curt Gamble wrote:
> Bob,
> I am sure speeds varied but on Navy circuits even with a straight key 20
> wpm would have been probably average.
> Mainly operators were copying FOX bcst. (one way) and those were in the
> 30 to 35 wpm range.
> Though I remember once a ship that was fully crypto gear etc. had a
> equipment breakdown and they had to get
> on CW and no one appeared to be able to copy the higher speeds so the
> Fleet bcst operator would group all of'
> this ships MSG's together and send about 12 wpm which must have been
> embarrassing to them and made the other
> ships operators laugh.
>
> Another funny incident on a Navy practice cw circuit in Norfolk in mid
> 60's some operator sent the following.
> "Mississippi sissies are sissier than Tennessee sissies" as fast as
> possible. They called all the logs in so they could
> figure who sent it and this individual got a few demerits on that
> one. 73, Curt WØALC Cedaredge, CO
>
> Bwana Bob wrote:
>
>> Don't know if there was an "official" speed, but K2VX, who had post war
>> mil experience in Greenland, once told us that the practical speed for
>> ops using straight keys under field conditions and with the usual
>> atmospherics was 8 wpm.
>>
>>
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Bob WB2VUF
>>
>> John wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Does anyone know the usual speed that radiomen during WWII used ?
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