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

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Bill Sohl wrote:
wrote in message
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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.

Gee, thanks, Len....;-)

He's so
brainwashed by amateur morsemanship that he can't come to
any intellectual decision...for him there is NO decision to
make. :-)

That's simply not true, Len. Not funny either, smiley or no
smiley.

Some just can't think out of their little box.

That's true. You're describing yourself again. Your fear of
change is showing.

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 retired from "The Tonight Show" several years ago, Len. The
appearance you describe happened many years ago. Why are you still
living in the past?

btw, the Segway is neither a unicycle nor powered by a gas engine.

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.

Is there a point to your story, Len?

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

Considering that the Morse Code team beat the text-message team
in all three rehersals and on the taped show, it was kind of a
safe bet....

It really seems to bother you that the Morse Code team won, Len.
Why is that?

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.

That's simply not true, Len.

The truth is that using Morse Code *is* real radio operating. So is
the use of lots of other modes.

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

The plain, simple fact is that the Morse Code team, using the mode
at a speed about 1/3 that of the world record, beat the *world
record holder* in text messaging every time the test was run.

I suspect that if the text message team had won, we'd never hear
the end of it from you.

--

It's really telling that some people let an established, proven
technology hold them back, just because it's not brand-new and requires
learning a new skill to use. Rather than learn it, they seek to change
a system that has worked well for decades. They fear change, and most
of all they fear the change in themselves that learning causes.

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