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Originally Posted by Engine Serang
As an aside, on every ship I was on the RO, always a Marconi Sahib, tried to send faster than the Operator in Portishead, a somewhat forlorn endeavour I believe. What was regarded as a good average WPM and what was a bloody good WPM?
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Thirty wpm, whilst a good clip, could result in requests for repeats that made the whole business more protracted than if you sent at a more sedate 25 wpm. For some coast stations in Red Sea a speed of 20wpm was more suited, and the same would be best if the other ship was manned by a newish chap. I would soon become fed up to be on the receiving end of some speed fanatic's ego.