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Morse code contest on Jay Leno
Tomorrow, Friday 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. Chip and Ken do a lot of contests and DXpeditions. Joe Drago, props manager for the show is KF6OCP. This should result in some excellent PR for ham radio. 73 De Don KA9QJG Friendly reminder: E |
"KC8GXW" wrote in message ... Tomorrow, Friday 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. Chip and Ken do a lot of contests and DXpeditions. Joe Drago, props manager for the show is KF6OCP. This should result in some excellent PR for ham radio. 73 De Don KA9QJG YAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWN |
Bill Sohl wrote:
Failure to consider the details? There's no accounting for stupid decisions or apparently the Text Messgae champion didn't do his homework. If he had, he'd know morse code experts exceed his own 160 character per minute Guiness World Record rate. But the text message whiz kids were probably certain that text messaging, being the latest technology, would just have to blow away something as ancient as Morse code. Guess they found out differently. |
Lloyd wrote:
wrote in message oups.com... KC8GXW 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 YAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWN! Lloyd yawns because he doesn't understand Morse code. |
KC8GXW 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 |
wrote in message oups.com... KC8GXW 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 YAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWN! |
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wrote in message oups.com... 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 |
Yeah rationalize all you want BUT
The cell phoners lost to a 160 year old technology CW LIVES -- CL -- I doubt, therefore I might be ! "Bill Sohl" wrote in message ink.net... wrote in message oups.com... 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 |
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