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KC8GXW previously wrote:
May 13th, the Tonight Show with Jay Leno will feature
a message sending/receiving contest between a cell phone text
messaging team and a Morse code team.
The Morse code team will consist of Chip Margelli K7JA and Ken
Miller K6CTW.

They utterly smoked the text messaging folks. The look on the
text-message guy's face when the receiving Morse op put up his hand
(signaling that he had the message complete) was priceless.
And the Morse ops weren't even going that fast...
73 de Jim, N2EY

Pretty much a no brainer that the text messaging would lose. Sending text
from a cellphone is pretty clumsy and slow. After each character is
inputted
sender must wait a second or so for the character to be accepted and for
the "cursor" to move to the next position indicating it is ready for the
next
character to be inputted. Also, different characters take several repeated
"pushes" of the key associated with that character to get to that
character...
Example: The letter 'S' is on keypad number 7 (along with P, Q and R)
and to get an 'S' into the text message you must hit the 7 button four times
to cycle the character selection first to P, then to Q, then to R and then
to S.

Even after the text message is completed and sent, there is a latency and
delay in actual delivery from the cellphone of the sender to recipt
at the cellphone of the individual intended to receive the test message.

Cheers,
Bill K2UNK