[dbcurtis]

Well, I do radiosport contests, and most stations are sending around 30 WPM, the hot shots are faster of course. But anyway... I look at radiosport the same way that I look at sail boat racing. There is great fun in keeping the old skills alive, and nobody at your local yacht club thinks it is odd to learn a bunch of arcane knots and spend Saturday dashing around in circles. But nobody is suggesting that wooden ships powered by sail is a good way to bring container loads of merch from China. For me Morse contesting is the same — I would use FTP to fetch an ISO from Finland, but code is good humor on a random Saturday contest.