[CW] Original High Speed Morse Challange vs Cell Phone

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

More on this event from the Western Australian (WA) MorseCodians
Newsletter "MORSECODIANS
MESSENGER" <http://members.iinet.net.au/~oseagram/messengers/msr3_3.pdf>:

Alice Springs Heritage Festival 23rd -29th April 2006.

During my stay at Alice Springs for 11 days, I had the pleasure of working
with the world champion telegraphists Ray Carter and Les Edwards [during
the annual telegraph circuit to the Powerhouse museum, Sydney ..ed]

Ray and Les were declared world champions after a rigidly controlled
contest under official Guinness world record supervisors in August last
year. The programme, The Guinness Book of Records, was put to air by
Channel 7 on
Sunday 16th April this year. Following is the official Guinness world
record text which was required to be sent and received without the aid of
modern electronic equipment:- *“the razor-toothed piranhas of the genera
serrasaimus and pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the
world. In reality they seldom attack a human."*

As there is no full stop on the old Imperial typewriter Ray had to
substitute an oblique stroke for the full stops. The ancient typewriter
jumped 2 spaces unexpectedly and the team were penalised 3 seconds for this
non man-made
error.

Les and Ray were competing against a young man using a mobile phone and
texting the same text. The young man was twice former world champion
texting winner and was brought from Fiji by Vodaphone to compete against our
two champions.

The young man concerned had the text to be transmitted for two years and
was able to practice it for all that time but Les was only given the text
one hour before the test took place and half an hour of that was taken in
the
make-up chair.

Les used a Cohen semi automatic key (jigger) and the text was sent and
received without human errors in 65 seconds. The sending and receiving was
done with only one telegraph sounder between them and it was distant
from Les the sender by 4 metres. Both men received gold medals and a
printed certificate.

The medals are olympic sized, and being modest men, they only wore them
when they were requested to by customers who wished to take their
photographs, and this happened frequently.
=  Barrie Field

73

DR

On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 11:06 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:

> Here is I believe the original High Speed Morse vs Cell Phone sending
> challenge:
>
> http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6n4zk_fastest-morse-
> code-sent-and-receive_tech
>
> 73
>
> DR
>
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