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May 13th 05, 05:01 PM
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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 |
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May 13th 05, 05:10 PM
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"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 |
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May 14th 05, 08:49 PM
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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 |
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#4
May 14th 05, 09:01 PM
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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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#5
May 14th 05, 03:17 AM
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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. |
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May 15th 05, 12:09 AM
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#7
May 16th 05, 03:48 PM
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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 |
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#8
May 16th 05, 04:15 PM
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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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#9
May 17th 05, 03:19 AM
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Who's rationalizing? I just stated the obvious
as I see it. The winner being morse is not surprising to me. Personally I'm glad it happened. It gives amateur radio, and CW in particular, a rare opportunity to get national attention. Cheers, Bill K2UNK "Caveat Lector" wrote in message news:nW1ie.16266$eU.14548@fed1read07... 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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#10
May 18th 05, 05:46 PM
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"Caveat Lector" wrote in news:nW1ie.16266
$eU.14548@fed1read07: Yeah rationalize all you want BUT The cell phoners lost to a 160 year old technology CW LIVES Shhhhhhh, Quiet, The dumb down ham radio anti-Code ARRL crowd doesn't want anyone to know CW is an effective way to communicate. Why did the league screw the service. Outcome based licensing. Quantity not quality. To feed corporate greed. Like CB'er type behavior. Cancel your League memberships, they're doing anyone who loves the hobby any good. KB7ADL |
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