wrote in message
ups.com...
May 13th, the Tonight Show with Jay Leno will feature
a message sending/receiving contest between a cell
phone text messaging team and a Morse code team.
The Morse code team will consist of Chip
Margelli K7JA and Ken Miller K6CTW

They utterly smoked the text messaging folks.
The look on the text-message guy's face when the
receiving Morse op put up his hand (signaling) that
he had the message complete) was priceless.
And the Morse ops weren't even going that fast...
73 de Jim, N2EY

(Bill K2UNK): Pretty much a no brainer that
the text messaging would lose.

(Jim N2EY): Then why did the text-message
folks agree to the contest?

(bb wrote): Are you really that stupid?

(Len wrote): I don't think Jimmy Noserve is "stupid" exactly.
He's so
brainwashed by amateur morsemanship that he can't come to
any intellectual decision...for him there is NO decision to
make. :-) Some just can't think out of their little box.

(SNIP of Unicycle story)

So, all the amateur morsemen "knew" that morse code would
"triumph" in this non-contest twit of the TXT-ing fad. :-)

Len,
I don't consider myself an "amateur morseman" but I
could see that morse would win out over current text
messaging via cellphone. Now if the input device for
text messaging had been a full keyboard, then I'd expect
the text messaging to win out as I belive records for
typing/keyboarding (100+ WPM I think) do exceed
the morse record (70+ per someone else's post).

Indeed, all the amateur morsemen in here do the cheering
and "morse-patriotism" thing because they, too, have been
brainwashed into thinking that morsemanship is "real
operating" in radio.

Sorry Len, I can't agree with your statements here.
Like it or not, morse operating IS real operating radio...
just as driving my antique cars is real automobile driving.
Is morse commonplace outside of ham radio? No
it isn't, but that does not make the use of morse by
hams any less "operating radio" then any other mode.

Given that you (Len) believe morse is NOT operating
radio, would it be your desire to see morse banned
as a mode of use by amateurs?

They (amateur morsemen) will leap and embrace the
slightest thing that makes morse "better" than any other
mode. :-)

I don't see anything in the morse win over text
messaging that suggests that. The morse win over
text messaging was a specific comparison only.
The win did not prove nor did I see any amateur
in this newsgroup suggest that the win showed
that morse was "better than any other mode."

Yes, I've been around
this newsgroup long enough to know that there is
a handful (or at least was at one time) of hams that
might have held such "morse is better than any other
mode" perspective, but I think the issue has
ckarified significantly in recent years to the point that
the issue is the TEST and only the test for most
hams.

As such, I applaud the morse win over Text
messaging because it was a good opportunity to
get some publicity for ham radio. Will text messaging
always be second (speed wise) to morse...who knows,
but without a full keyboard for entry, I suspect it
will be...but maybe someday there will be telepathic
input of text at which point all bets are off :-) :-)

Cheers and congrats again to the morse winners.
Bill K2UNK