Outstanding, Ken! When I wrote Chip yesterday, I asked him if those were K2s
the two of you were using. ;-))
Cheers,
Rod
K5BGB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Miller, K6CTW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 12:14 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] More Clarifications on the Tonight Show - from K6CTW
*A few more points for clarification: When my XYL, Connie, originally
answered the call, at my home, from the producers of the show, she
explained that I operated both codes and that I considered myself to be a
good but not exceptional operator. However, she is the one who "sold" the
producers that the skit could work. She also did a VERY credible job of
explaining Morse telegraphy and the radio code and its uses. (You all
might think to send her a thanks too as without her, this would never have
happened [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) When they contacted me later that
afternoon, I explained that my wife was correct, I am a competent CW and
Morse operator. Your point is interesting in that they did try and get the
fastest text messengers they could fly in. I did however explain that if
the Tonight Show folks had been able to get the equivalent world record
holder in CW to do this, it would have been at almost TRIPLE the speed we
were going at. The reason, as I have explained before, that we worked at
about 28 or so wpm is that this is the fastest speed that I can make nice
readable copy with a pencil as they did not have the ability to let me use
a typewriter for copy (and I thought they were going to do a camera shot
of my copy for verification). Also, since we did not have the time to set
up headphones, I just added some extra volume for me, had the stage folks
cut my mike (to prevent feedback and overload) and copied off of the
speaker. To re-emphasize the point, I'm just an average CW op who
occasionally operates the CW SS QRP, whith my K2 of course, and really
enjoys CW, and traffic handling. By the way, the radios used were Chip's
not from Yaesu and the backup radios were from HRO. 73, Ken, K6CTW *
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