Bill Sohl wrote:
Lots of stuff snipped with additional comments below.

wrote in message
oups.com...

Should we have a pity party for the poor text messaging
record holder. If the text message folks feared a put
down then they had the option to not play. They decided to
play and they lost....fair, square, contrived or how ever
you feel it was inevitable that text messaging would lose.

Okay, then you agree it was a SETUP?

I agree the result was predictable...if you want to call
it a set-up, then so be it.

It takes two hands to use a cellphone for text-messaging purposes.

In only takes two fingers to send Morse Code on a keyer.

The Morse guys were older, hence more experienced, yet the "text"
guys were younger and had greater reaction times and speed.

This really could have gone the other way had the Morse guys had
to "error" a letter and had to retransmit a letter.

I don't see a 'set up'...

Then argue against the test. Your post appeared to be
far more focused against morse use in general rather
than specifically the test requirement.

To use an old military term...TS.

Guess you ran out of logical arguments?

Bingo.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau figures for 2004, there
are 100 million cell phone subscriptions in the USA. How
many morse code operators are there in radio in the USA?

Your point?

"Point?" What "point?" I asked "how many morse code operators
are there in radio in the USA." [I didn't restrict that to just
radio amateurs]

OK, for argument sake, let's say there are 1/3 million morse
code operators in the USA (hams and anyone else). Now
what's your point?

There was no "point", Bill...Just Lennie trying to reshuffle the
deck for time.

73

Steve, K4YZ