The Guinness World's record for their stock sentence is 57.75 seconds. That works out to a leisurely 24 wpm. I don't see any contest here as long as Chip can send better than 24 wpm.
Here's the Guinness sentence required for record attempts: "The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human." No abbreviations or "predictive" words can be used. They have to send it letter by letter. It will be interesting to see what text they use on Leno. Eric KE6US -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Art - W6KY Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 6:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Elecraft] QST: CW vs Text Message Contest on NBC's "Tonight Show"Friday Posting this because of the CW component. Hi All, > > Christie K0IU at HRO Burbank just informed me that Chip K7JA (Yaesu) > and a traffic handler friend will be competing on NBC's "Tonight Show" > with Jay Leno against a pair of cellphone text messengers to see who > can transmit a message the fastest. According to Christie the > competition will be airing tomorrow night (Friday May 13th). > This was confirmed by Chip's wife Janet KL7MF who was manning the > other cash register at HRO this afternoon. > > Get your TiVOs programmed!! > > 73 de Mike, W4EF........... I know Chip. Why do I think the 'CW' will easily beat the cell phone message system... Lets watch...73, Art W6KY _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
