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

[EricJ]

It requires time, but it doesn't require sending an additional character.
The SMS guy had to physically click a space key like any other character.
The Morse guy didn't. 

-----Original Message-----
From: David A. Belsley [mailto:belsley at bc.edu] 
Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 1:34 PM
To: EricJ
Cc: 'Kevin Rock'; Elecraft Reflector
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Morse on the Tonight Show, Tonight, Friday the 13th


> I posted the math here based on the Guinness sentence that the text 
> messenger had to send for his world record, but I'm too lazy to look 
> for it now. The official text is 160 characters INCLUDING spaces, 136 
> without. But SMS requires that spaces be keyed in where Morse does 
> not. So SMS is at a throughput disadvantage from the beginning.

A space requires time in code, too.