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TOm wrote,

   >I estimate he was probably sending about 25 wpm, but I could be off
   >on that, and yep, people can send and receive faster than that!
   >Anyway, it's a great demo, and shows that the newest technology
   >isn't always the greatest in certain regards.
I've heard that in other showdowns with this the cw guys have won too
over this past week.

What amazes a local topnotch cw op and I is they got a coupkle of
contesters doing this, I'm sure that if there was any doubt at all to
the outcome had they gotten a couple of crack cw traffic handlers the
disparity between the two forms of communication for speed and
accuracy would have been even wider.


73 de nf5b



Richard Webb

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