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

[N2EY at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/14/05 4:05:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
eric_csuf at hotmail.com writes:


> 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.
> 

No it isn't. 

Morse requires spaces between letters and words, and the spaces are longer 
than some letters!

In the Australian test, btw, the text messagers used abbreviations and the 
Morse ops used the straight text, yet Morse still won. Don't know if the Leno 
test allowed text abbreviations - the Morse ops sent the straight text.

73 de Jim, N2EY

....looking for my green eyeshade.....