[Elecraft] Morse on the Tonight Show, Tonight, Friday the 13th

[Margaret Leber]

Tim Jones wrote:

> I caught the segment you guys smoked em!!!!!!!!
> Great job of staying with the message even thru the crowd noise 
> When you raised your hand that you were done the kids expression was amazing
> He could not believe you guys were already done 
> Thanks for the great exposure about morse code 
> Oh and the telegrapher outfits were great !!!!!!
> -----Original Message-----
> On Behalf Of Ken Miller, K6CTW
> It's a great chance for us to plug Morse, telegraphy and ham radio!  Thanks.

It *was* a great segment...

But speaking from our experience working with publicity and media 
relations for the Pink Pistols ( http://www.pinkpistols.org ) over the 
last few years, I just think it's sad that the Leno people managed to 
almost completely bury the ham radio connection, although one of you (I 
missed which one) managed to punch up that point despite the overall 
spin of the segment.

I wonder how many people watching even knew that radios were being used?

I also think the costumes (and they *were* really cute) helped 
contriubute to the perception that Morse is something that's not done 
outside museums anymore.

When you only have two or three minutes to work with it's hard to do 
everything you might want to. But a valiant effort nontheless!

  Congratulations es 73 de Maggie K3XS


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