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What is the ARRL's thought on having good amateurs?
wrote in message oups.com... wrote: [snip] The Morse Code test consists of 5 minutes of Morse Code. How many words are in those tests? At 5 wpm, there would be 25 At 13 wpm, there would be 65 At 15 wpm, there would be 75 (A word is 5 characters) Not all words are 5 characters, unless your working with random groups of five. Granted not all words are five characters long. However, in order to develop the test, the "standard" word is defined as 5 characters even though word lengths may vary. This is then used to determine the character count in the test message. For 5 minutes of Morse Code: At 5wpm, the character count is 125 characters At 13wpm, the character count is 325 characters At 15wpm, the character count is 375 characters At 20wpm, the character count is 500 characters The number of characters, not words, copied is the basis on which the code tests are graded if one uses the 1 minute solid copy option to pass. This compensates for the fact that not all words are the same length. For the 5wpm test, that means only 25 characters in a row need to be correctly copied. While all alphabetic characters count as one each, punctuation and prosigns count as two each due to their length. Dee, N8UZE |
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