uuyRe: [ICOM] The answer to the CW vs text Messaging..Who were they..

[David J. Ring, Jr.]

Ken K6CTW is also a former landline (American Morse) telegrapher.

The other "morse" race was between text messaging and two landline 
telegraphers, unfortunately due to time constraints, Ken (nor the Morse 
Telegraph Club) was unable to locate another landline telegrapher, so they 
did it with radio code.

The costumes were "landline" and the code and sound were "ham radio".  Quite 
a mix but effective, especially the blowing away of "smoke" from the fingers 
after sending code!

I'm very pleased that they gave such excellent publicity to ham radio and 
morse code.

v73

David Ring N1EA
Member:  Morse Telegraph Club

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian K. Gaskamp" <ka5bkg at sbcglobal.net>
To: <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: <kenwood at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 3:12 PM
Subject: [ICOM] The answer to the CW vs text Messaging..Who were they..


> BTW the Morse code team consisted of Chip Margelli K7JA and Ken Miller
K6CTW
> dressed in old telegraph operator outfits.
> Chip and Ken do a lot of contests and DXpeditions. Chip is also a high
level
> manager with Yaesu USA, which sells amateur/ham as well as commercial 2way
> gear. Joe Drago, props manager for the sho,w is KF6OCP.
>
> This is the 2nd time in a row CW has beaten the best in text
> messaging.....and the message sent this time was hilarious!!
>

73,
Brian-KA5BKG


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