[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oddly enough, I've encountered many a cell phone that announces an incoming
text message by sending SMS - in Morse!
These phones are probably manufactured by a small unknown finnish
company ;-) where a rather well-known finnish ham (OH2BH) works.
Those same phones
On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 08:46 +0200, Andrea Borgia wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oddly enough, I've encountered many a cell phone that announces an incoming
text message by sending SMS - in Morse!
These phones are probably manufactured by a small unknown finnish
company ;-) where a
I caught the segment you guys smoked em
Great job of staying with the message even thru the crowd noise
When you raised your hand that you were done the kids expression was amazing
He could not believe you guys were already done
Thanks for the great exposure about morse code
Oh and the
Paul wrote:
and for reliable point to point communication, the instant messaging devices
are way better in every way.
My experience with employer-company-supplied-paid cell devices has been
different.
When I worked one of this U.S.'s largest technology tradeshows in Las Vegas,
NV, and I'm
On May 14, 2005, at 10:14 AM, Don - W7DAH wrote:
Paul wrote:
and for reliable point to point communication, the instant messaging
devices are way better in every way.
My experience with employer-company-supplied-paid cell devices has
been different.
When I worked one of this U.S.'s
Tim Jones wrote:
I caught the segment you guys smoked em
Great job of staying with the message even thru the crowd noise
When you raised your hand that you were done the kids expression was amazing
He could not believe you guys were already done
Thanks for the great exposure about
You guys did a great job! The costumes were great, especially since you were
using keys that most people wouldn't recognize.
The comments were FB publicity. It all made the center point: Ham radio and
Morse code is still around and the most modern communications are not
necessarily faster.
It
,
Sandy W5TVW
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From: Bob - W5BIG [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Morse on the Tonight Show, Tonight, Friday the 13th
| The costumes were a brilliant idea! Really added spice to the scene
Its available there: http://www.tarc.org/leno/leno.wmv
73, de VE2PID
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Winchell didn't send code (or, at least if he did, it was in code). He
had a bug next to his right hand, and he would, for dramatic effect,
slap it around a bit.
best wishes,
dave belsley, w1euy
On May 14, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Bob - W5BIG wrote:
The costumes were a brilliant idea! Really
I did a little arithmetic to determine the skills necessary for this
'competition'. It appears the text only folks never stood a chance.
Using the standard word PARIS here is the run down.
PARIS * 20 wpm = 100 chars/minute
100 chars/60 seconds = 1.67 chars/second
At 27 wpm = 2.25 chars/sec
: Saturday, May 14, 2005 11:27 AM
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Morse on the Tonight Show, Tonight, Friday the 13th
I did a little arithmetic to determine the skills necessary for this
'competition'. It appears the text only folks never stood a chance.
Using the standard word PARIS
Its unfortunate they had to be costumed up as 140 year old telegraphers.
It may have been cute however it doesn't do our image much good. Some
would say that any publicity is good publicity but I'm not so sure in
this case.
But hey, more importantly, we're those FT-817's by any chance? Likely
just
: '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
You guys are missing something in the timing. Sending an SMS message
requires far more than just keying in the receiver's phone number and
the text itself. Once all this is keyed in and the send button is
pressed, the cell system takes over. Much like the email system we are
now using, the SMS
In a message dated 5/14/05 4:46:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sending an SMS message
requires far more than just keying in the receiver's phone number and
the text itself. Once all this is keyed in and the send button is
pressed, the cell system takes over.
In a message dated 5/14/05 4:05:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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.
No it isn't.
In a message dated 5/14/05 4:33:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Its unfortunate they had to be costumed up as 140 year old telegraphers.
I think it was a great idea!
It may have been cute however it doesn't do our image much good.
Sure it does - it shows we have a
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 06:32:33PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It should also be remembered that the text message sender was the *world
champion*, not someone selected at random.
To my mind, this point bears repeating and emphasis. With underline,
in bold, parentheses, and a large font.
Hi Buddy:
I suspect you don't know K7JA, who has, for the past 30+ years, been one of
the WORLD'S TOP CW CONTEST OPS! Chip can run 'em at 40-45 WPM just as
easily as he can run 'em at 25 WPM. And, I'll bet, that if Ken's been
Chip's contesting 'partner', he's no slouch either.
It' s just
Tom N0SS wrote:
Hi Buddy:
I suspect you don't know K7JA, who has, for the past 30+ years, been one of
the WORLD'S TOP CW CONTEST OPS! Chip can run 'em at 40-45 WPM just as
easily as he can run 'em at 25 WPM. And, I'll bet, that if Ken's been
Chip's contesting 'partner', he's no slouch
I guess you can't tell us ahead of time who won - as if there was any doubt
73 de Jim, N2EY
-Original Message-
From: Ken Miller, K6CTW [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Fri, 13 May 2005 08:12:44 -0700
Subject: [Elecraft] Morse on the Tonight Show, Tonight,
On May 13, 2005, at 11:12 AM, Ken Miller, K6CTW wrote:
All,
Tonight Chip, K7JA and I, K6CTW will be having a contest on The
Tonight Show with Jay Leno. It will pit morse code vs text messaging
(by the current US champions). Please watch, and if you enjoy the
segment, please write,
On Fri, 13 May 2005, Ken Miller, K6CTW wrote:
All,
Tonight Chip, K7JA and I, K6CTW will be having a contest on The Tonight
Show with Jay Leno. It will pit morse code vs text messaging (by the
current US champions). Please watch, and if you enjoy the segment, please
write, telegram, call
Good luck! It is a great 'plug' (if you win, especially!).
Even though Leno is doing it for entertainment value, there's benefit from
raising awareness that that an arcane system like Morse not only is still in
use, it is also competitive.
It's good Leno does it for entertainment.
A good
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