Originally Posted by
Hal O'Peridol
You are right, those were number groups and machine generated. Best I was able to do on manual sent non formatted traffic was about 25 wpm. That was also keeping up tith back and forth messages on a simplex net and several (IIRC) sites. Most of that traffic was comblock and not nearly as nice or clean sounding. One station was a very nice endition of a turkey sending the code.
Copying morse is strange, some folks have a knack for it, some never get it. Anything around 25 wpm on non formatted morse is a very nice achievement.