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

[Tom Hammond]

Hi Buddy:

I suspect you don't know K7JA, who has, for the past 30+ years, been one of 
the WORLD'S TOP CW CONTEST OPS!  Chip can run 'em at 40-45 WPM just as 
easily as he can run 'em at 25 WPM. And, I'll bet, that if Ken's been 
Chip's contesting 'partner', he's no slouch either.

It' s just that they were sending at a speed reasonable enough to fully 
ensure 100 percent copy regardless of the amount of background QRM.

73,

Tom Hammond  N0SS

At 06:33 PM 5/14/05, Buddy Brannan wrote:
>On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 06:32:33PM -0400, N2EY at aol.com wrote:
> > It should also be remembered that the text message sender was the *world
> > champion*, not someone selected at random.
>
>To my mind, this point bears repeating and emphasis. With underline,
>in bold, parentheses, and a large font.
>
>Ken, please understand I'm not saying this to diminish your skill,
>Chip's skill, or your accomplishment. But they pitted the *world
>champion* SMS people against two mid-speed code operators--not two
>ops at the top of their art, but fairly typical morse ops working at a
>speed that isn't especially noteworthy in our community. While Ken and
>Chip are both undoubtedly fantastic ops and obviously skilled in their
>art, they aren't especially unusual, and this bears emphasis. The best
>of the best still got beat out by good, though not atypical.
>
>Vy 73!
>--
>Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV : Co-Mod. of http://www.assist.com/Pennsylvania
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