I'll take a crack at the question. I'm an old navy radioman and one of the last generation who learned 'code'. I haven't used it very much in the 50 years since I got out but can still copy at about 10-12 WPM.
The reason they are broadcasting code is to give the location where Sonic is giving away free milk shakes to old, retired radio geezers who tend to honk their car horns at each other in code. Drives the wives crazy.
I have a related question for anyone who ever copied code.
While we were learning (me in Navy 'A' school) we would spend several hours per day listening to code and typing it out on a typewriter (learning typing and code at the same time). Each week we would move up by 2 WPM (a 'word' in this parlance means 5 random characters). My toughest speed came at 14 WPM and I don't know why. The Navy took us through 22 WPM and in all that time I missed only one character in our weekly testing but I really struggled at 14.
Anyone else experience anything like that - civilian or military?
I'll take a crack at the question. I'm an old navy radioman and one of the last generation who learned 'code'. I haven't used it very much in the 50 years since I got out but can still copy at about 10-12 WPM.
The reason they are broadcasting code is to give the location where Sonic is giving away free milk shakes to old, retired radio geezers who tend to honk their car horns at each other in code. Drives the wives crazy.