At 04:49 PM 4/15/2006 -0700, you wrote:
That may be, I don't know how these contests were run. I was always under the impression that they were by sound although the code was generated by machine. High speed code transmission was done by punched paper tape for sending and ink recorders for receiving. Operators "read" the tape and typed out the messages.
This mode was used mostly for point to point circuits, marine stuff was mostly rather slow speed, hand-keyed traffic.
I just did a Google search on Ted McElroy and found a couple of sites with biographical information. My own knowledge came from old magazines I had collected years ago and are now lost. This is actually more in depth.
Don Williams La Jolla, CA
