Years ago, when the Internet was still young, a fellow rode across the USA on his bicycle equipped with a solar panel charged the battery of an early "laptop" computer. He blogged (the term hadn't been invented yet, IIRC) and e-mailed while riding. He did that using an 8-key keyboard operated with the fingers of each hand squeezing switches mounted on the grips of his handlebars so he never needed to take his attention off of steering with both hands. Combinations of squeezes represented every letter on the keyboard (no Morse involved, sigh).
He had to wait until he found a source of a wired internet connection to send his e-mails and blog to his editor documenting his trip. IIRC he was also a Ham and had at least a 2-meter FM rig on the bike too, but it was a long time ago and I may be mixing up two adventures. But the 8-finger "keyboard" was very interesting. Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- April Fool's. But what the creators of this commercial may not realize is that there are real Morse apps in use for texting. In California you can't text and drive, but you could Morse and drive (eyes-free), so there may yet be a future in this. Wayne N6KR On Apr 1, 2012, at 12:05 PM, Bob wrote: > A great new use for Morse in a new Google App: > > https://mail.google.com/mail/help/promos/tap/index.html > > 73, > Bob > K2TK ex KN2TKR (1956) & K2TKR > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
