Phil:

Doug, VE7NH, visited me here about ten years ago. I tested him up to 80 WPM
and he got 100% copy.

I have also visited him on Pender Island but haven't heard him on the air
for ages.
Another high speed guy is Dale - W4QM I think that his call.

David W Wood

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-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Phil Scovell
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 8:34 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Most Memorable Experiences

Speaking of high speed CW, when I was about 3 months into my
novice days, I used to tune outside the novice bands to hear
higher speed guys and gals in order to practice for taking my
general test.  I never dreamed of going for the extra in those
days.  Anyhow, I had a 3703 crystal for my Viking Ranger 1 which I
got a couple of months after using the DX20 because a friend of
mine was selling it.  I still ran the BC348 receiver though. 
Anyhow, I tuned down to that crystal frequency of 3703 and kept
going.  I almost immediately ran across two guys rolling along at
least 40 words per minute.  I started sending BK over and over
again as I heard them working each other like they were using vox
on sideband.  I never dreamed they would hear me because I surely
was outside their pass bands.  After several minutes, they slowed
down and one of the guys said, slow enough for me to copy, "Hey,
"Are you hearing someone way off frequency sending break?"  The
other guy said no but they began tuning and found me.  They moved
up to 3703 and started talking to me at about 20 to 25 WPM.  One
of the guys, whom I worked off and on for many years until he
passed away, was WA8JQV, who was also blind, and we became close
friends.  Rick was a whale of a QRQ CW operator.  I used to also
work people like Reeva, K8DMU, and Flo, W7QYA, and WB2TEN and
W2KFA, whose names I have forgotten but Reeva knows them all.  Of
course, Lisa, who passed away and used to run the blindad list,
was one of the 5 high speed qualified and tested CW operators in
the country.  She passed the 80 WPM test years ago that was given,
as I recall, at a ham fest.  My top speed hit 70 back in the early
eighties when I was working, nearly ever day, the guys and gals in
the CFO CW club.  I was number 168 back when W9TO was the keeper
the list.  I told W9TO once, I think his name was Jim, that I
owned, as a novice, and after passing my general and waiting a
month for my general license to come in the mail, the HA1TO keyer. 
He broke in, we were full QSK of course, and said, "Say, Phil? 
Did you know I designed that TO keyer and sold the design to
Hallicrafters?"  I about fell off my chair.  I used to work,
almost daily, W6Wu, W1OBJ, VE7NH, and a whole bunch of over CFO
members and some of those old boys copied well over 80 WPM.  I had
my wife come to my shack one afternoon, she can type 120 WPM and
has been a medical secretary since 1968, and she typed to some of
these guys I have mentioned because I couldn't type that fast
without making 500 mistakes.  I had her ask them questions and
they replied down at 50 WPM so I could see if they could answer
the questions my wife was asking correctly.  All three of those
guys that day, W1OBJ Jim, W6Wu Ken, and VE7NH Doug, answered all
the questions.  They each had me squeeze up to 95 and 100 WPM just
for fun on my Curtis keyboard and they didn't do as well but they
got some questions correct even at those higher speeds.  I worked
W6PY once on 20 meters and they told me he did copy 100 so I
tested him and my hand on the Bible, that old guy could copy code
even that fast.  It blew me away.

Phil.
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