[Elecraft] QST: CW vs Text Message Contest on NBC's "Tonight Show"Friday

[EricJ]

The Guinness World's record for their stock sentence is 57.75 seconds. That
works out to a leisurely 24 wpm. I don't see any contest here as long as
Chip can send better than 24 wpm.

Here's the Guinness sentence required for record attempts:

"The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are
the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom
attack a human." 

No abbreviations or "predictive" words can be used. They have to send it
letter by letter.

It will be interesting to see what text they use on Leno.

Eric
KE6US

-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces+eric_csuf=hotmail.com at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces+eric_csuf=hotmail.com at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
Art - W6KY
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 6:43 PM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] QST: CW vs Text Message Contest on NBC's "Tonight
Show"Friday

Posting this because of the CW component. 
 
Hi All,
>
> Christie K0IU at HRO Burbank just informed me that Chip K7JA (Yaesu) 
> and a traffic handler friend will be competing on NBC's "Tonight Show" 
> with Jay Leno against a pair of cellphone text messengers to see who 
> can transmit a message the fastest. According to Christie the 
> competition will be airing tomorrow night (Friday May 13th).
> This was confirmed by Chip's wife Janet KL7MF who was manning the 
> other cash register at HRO this afternoon.
>
> Get your TiVOs programmed!!
>
> 73 de Mike, W4EF...........
 
I know Chip. Why do I think the 'CW' will easily beat the cell phone message
system...
Lets watch...73, Art  W6KY
 
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