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Phil Kane · March 28th 08, 04:02 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.moderated

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:41:24 EDT, wrote:

The real point of the Jay Leno clip was to show that the assumption of
"newer is faster/better" turned out to be exactly wrong. The audience
and the woman Leno talked to were *sure* the text-messager would win,
yet Morse Code was faster.

As I said in both a print interview and a TV interview during the
December storms here while passing gobs of hospital traffic using PTT
UHF FM ham radios when the electrical power, cellphones, internet
circuits , landlines, and even the sat-phone connections were all
down to the hospitals on the Oregon coast, we showed that 1950s
technology can get through when 1990s technology fails.
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73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane

From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon

e-mail: k2asp [at] arrl [dot] net