On (09 Aug 96) Bob Roach wrote to Ray Wade...
 BR> Hi Ray,
 BR> RW>-You must be a "codeless" tech or you would know this :).
 BR> As a matter of fact I hold a general class license and I do know all
 BR> of this.  The difficulty is that I do not have a very good since of
 BR> timing. The keyer gooes a long way to take care of this problem but
 BR> when I send the character and word spacing still varies thus there is
 BR> an element of uncertainty to my measurement.
Well Bob, as I understand it, character counting still determines wpm,
regardless of spacing (intentional or not). So...just count the
characters and *average* the whole "transmission"!
... Which is worse: ignorance or apathy?  Who knows?  Who cares?
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