It requires time, but it doesn't require sending an additional character. The SMS guy had to physically click a space key like any other character. The Morse guy didn't.
-----Original Message----- From: David A. Belsley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 1:34 PM To: EricJ Cc: 'Kevin Rock'; Elecraft Reflector Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Morse on the Tonight Show, Tonight, Friday the 13th > I posted the math here based on the Guinness sentence that the text > messenger had to send for his world record, but I'm too lazy to look > for it now. The official text is 160 characters INCLUDING spaces, 136 > without. But SMS requires that spaces be keyed in where Morse does > not. So SMS is at a throughput disadvantage from the beginning. A space requires time in code, too. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net 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
