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April 17th 05, 01:24 AM

Mike Coslo

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From the QRP list:

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Today's edition of the UK Times newspaper has the following heading on
page

11:
A race to the wire as old hand at Morse code beats txt msgrs

An Australian museum set up a race between CW operators and teenage
text messagers.

Message (randomly selected)
Hey, girlfriend, you can text all your pals to tell them where you are
going and what you are wearing.

CW
Transmitting - Gordon Hill aged 93.
Receiving - Jack Gibson aged 82.
No abbreviations used.

Text
Sent by - Brittany Devlin aged 13 - using text slang. Also three other
teenagers. Miss Devlin had two years of texting experience. Using text
message shorthand.

Timed Results
CW - 90 seconds to a correct written message.
TEXT - 108 seconds to a correct message.

In three further contests with three further teenagers CW was the
winner.

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Even when not allowed to use abbreviations, and when required to write
it down, the CW (Morse Code) ops won.

Of this I have no doubt, Jim. I think the CW the experimenters are
using on 150 KHz will beat cell phone text messaging. It is an awful method.

BUT! that gave me an idea. If a cell phone mfg. were to offer a method
of keying morse messages, some of these kids may "discover" Morse code.
Imagine, a little iambic key on a cell phone.......

- Mike KB3EIA -

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