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bb wrote:

If the CEO of NEXTEL had to pass a Morse Code exam to get his company
licensed, we wouldn't have a NEXTEL.

To quote you, "Are you really that stupid?"

Dave K8MN

Dave Heil wrote:
bb wrote:

If the CEO of NEXTEL had to pass a Morse Code exam to get his
company
licensed, we wouldn't have a NEXTEL.

To quote you, "Are you really that stupid?"

Dave K8MN

I wondered what it would take to get you out of the woodwork again?

How are those out of band Frenchmen doing these days?

bb wrote:
Dave Heil wrote:

bb wrote:

wrote:

Bill Sohl wrote:

Then why did the text-message folks agree to the contest?

Are you really that stupid?

Don't leave us hanging, Brian. Why did they do it? Was the

thousands

of dollars in valueable cash and prizes? Was it to gain needed

exposure

for their garage band? Was it because they're masochists? Was it
because they're a couple of clueless boobs?

Dave K8MN

Because even bad publicity is publicity.

I'm sure the Roger Wisemans and Todd O'Whatshisfaces of the world
applaud your view.

Dave K8MN

bb wrote:
Dave Heil wrote:

bb wrote:

If the CEO of NEXTEL had to pass a Morse Code exam to get his

company

licensed, we wouldn't have a NEXTEL.

To quote you, "Are you really that stupid?"

Dave K8MN

I wondered what it would take to get you out of the woodwork again?

How are those out of band Frenchmen doing these days?

There was nothing about the French in your post, Brian. Tell us how a
five word per minute code exam would have stymied the CEO of Nextel.
Nothing would have ever been accomplished if a morse test was involved.

You're almost as pathetic as Leonard.

Dave K8MN

From: "bb" on Thurs,May 19 2005 3:29 pm

wrote:
Bill Sohl wrote:
wrote in message
oups.com...
KC8GXW previously wrote:
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

Pretty much a no brainer that the text messaging would lose.

Then why did the text-message folks agree to the contest?

Are you really that stupid?

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. It's like the
retired engineer who came on Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show"
with a powered unicycle. One-wheeled cycle, powered by a
small gas engine used in lawn mowers. Johnny had some good-
natured fun with the guest and, when the guest had trouble
starting the gas engine (with a pull rope), Johnny got in and
pulled several times. The rope BROKE. All kinds of laughter
from the audience. [most "knew it couldn't be done" years
before the Segway debuted...]

Carson invited the guest back later...this time with a new
pull-start rope. The electronically stabilized powered
unicycle did indeed work and the guest tooled around the
small stage to well-deserved applause. This might have been
one of the last shows of "Tonight" in New York City before
moving to Burbank...don't have an exact air date on it.

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

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

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