50 WPM Morse Code (CW) with a Begali Scultpure

This video shows an example of 50WPM (250 characters per minute) morse code sending with a Begali Scultpure. I am reading the key brochure:
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"How to adjust the Scultpure
Please refer to the photos on the opposite page.
Before you adjust the paddle spacing by turning the oval backstop, please remove the contact gap adjustment screws all the way out for the maximum gap.
After adjusting the paddle spacing readjust the contact gap as required"
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Category:

Education

Tags:

• CW
• morse
• code
• begali
• sculpture
• QRQ

[F5MJV]

Nice.

73, Vincent, F5MJV - French President of U.F.T.

[ik0ygj]

Thanks Vince, it is a real honour to meet you

[vu2mue]

Awesome..I tell my friend this is called meditation. Long Live Morse Code and let the world be full of beautiful paddle keys with rhithm of the key.keep it up best 73 de Sandeep

[ik0ygj]

Hi Sandeep.

yes I think it is a kind of meditation, I published a book (sorry, it is in italian only)

"Lo Zen e l'Arte della Radiotelegrafia"

(Zen and the art of radiotelegraphy )where I introduce techniques of relaxation to learn CW.

I think CW (and QRQ CW) puts our brain in a state where time and space follow own rules ...

[martinuk777]

Sending fast morse is easy with practice. The skill comes in the decoding.

I'm ex-Royal Signals and trained to read high speed morse in excess of 50wpm in training. Rarely was is heard anywhere near as fast when listening to the Russians which was my job, 35-40 was normally the tops.

I also worked on oil rigs for many years and there were many skilled maritime operators out there.

I'm also a Ham Radio operator and CW is my first love although I'm very rusty at it right now.

[martinuk777]

The morse in this video is very fast but also quite poor in my opinion as it's not very rhythmic at all.

Listening to a skilled DX operator on the band working his way through hundreds of short contacts in a day is very good. Quite repetitive, but very melodic rhythmic.

CW is king whether it's fast or slow, it's probably the most simple and effective form of communication still in use today and it's a shame that's it's use is being diminished from the amateur radio hobby.

[f4dkf]

j'ai du boulot pour arrivé a sa! dur dur

[gabrielinfer39]

the guy is a machine!!!

[Varianna12]

Plenty of folks can copy that fast. Most cw transmitted to and from amateurs is continuously repeated signals and words. Thus, if you are a pretty good codester, you should be able to get by on a contest knowing the exchange.

This fellow would be too fast for me, however.

I think that the lovely flow of cw seems to optimize from 13 to 35 wpm.

I usually use 22-25 wpm in contests and QSOs--slower speeds aid copying if you are lower power.

[jvolstad]

Just who can copy this fast?

[raymo9980]

Fast but poor quality my friend, no flow.

[kd8opi]

The irony of CW is that at some point above 15 wpm, the better you get, fewer and fewer people understand you.  This video illustrates the point perfectly.

[rv9md]

FB! de RV9MD HPECU 73 TU EE

[LkOutMtnMan]

I got up to around 40+ wpm and it wasn't so much the speed as it was the spacing between the words, I found that I could copy the ops that added a slightly longer delay between words even with 40+ speed. Amazed me how I could copy a sentence behind in my head if you know what I mean. Just now getting back to the QRP bands. N4OHB

[sunsetcroatia]

i still trying to work it out to fast for me ..73s all the best..