[Elecraft] For the CW OPS

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Years ago, when the Internet was still young, a fellow rode across the USA
on his bicycle equipped with a solar panel charged the battery of an early
"laptop" computer. He blogged (the term hadn't been invented yet, IIRC) and
e-mailed while riding. He did that using an 8-key keyboard operated with the
fingers of each hand squeezing switches mounted on the grips of his
handlebars so he never needed to take his attention off of steering with
both hands. Combinations of squeezes represented every letter on the
keyboard (no Morse involved, sigh). 

He had to wait until he found a source of a wired internet connection to
send his e-mails and blog to his editor documenting his trip. 

IIRC he was also a Ham and had at least a 2-meter FM rig on the bike too,
but it was a long time ago and I may be mixing up two adventures. 

But the 8-finger "keyboard" was very interesting. 

Ron AC7AC 

-----Original Message-----

April Fool's.

But what the creators of this commercial may not realize is that there are
real Morse apps in use for texting. In California you can't text and drive,
but you could Morse and drive (eyes-free), so there may yet be a future in
this.

Wayne
N6KR

On Apr 1, 2012, at 12:05 PM, Bob wrote:

> A great new use for Morse in a new Google App:
>
> https://mail.google.com/mail/help/promos/tap/index.html
>
> 73,
> Bob
> K2TK   ex KN2TKR  (1956) & K2TKR
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