[BC] Hi Speed CW vs. Text Messaging...

[Burt I. Weiner]

I saw the show.  It's to bad they didn't point out a little bit more about 
these fellows being Hams rather than "Morse code operators".  One of the 
fellows did mention that he was a Ham but it was very brief and buried in 
some of the other bantering.

Burt

At 07:01 PM 5/14/05 -0700, you wrote:
>Cc: SETXham at yahoogroups.com; 6meter at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [6 Meter Sked] CW vs Text Messaging
>
>For those who missed it last night on Leno, good ole Morse Code (CW) won out
>over text messaging....
>Here is a link to view/download it at:
>http://www.tarc.org/index.php?load=leno  About 13 MB so if you are dialup,
>prepare to wait...
>
>BTW the Morse code team consisted of Chip Margelli K7JA and Ken Miller K6CTW
>dressed in old telegraph operator outfits.
>Chip and Ken do a lot of contests and DXpeditions. Chip is also a high level
>manager with Yaesu USA, which sells amateur/ham as well as commercial 2way
>gear. Joe Drago, props manager for the sho,w is KF6OCP.
>
>This is the 2nd time in a row CW has beaten the best in text
>messaging.....and the message sent this time was hilarious!!
>
>Chris
>WB5ITT

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