[K3PZN-List] CW Ops Whip Whippersnapper Text Messengers on National Television

[Al Bisasky]

Yuz guyz what are CW fanatics will love this one...

NEWINGTON, CT, May 16, 2005--It might have been Friday the Thirteenth, but 
it was a lucky day for Morse code--and particularly for veteran CW contest 
ops Chip Margelli, K7JA, and Ken Miller, K6CTW. During a May 13 appearance 
on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, the pair was able to pass a message 
using good old fashioned Morse code more rapidly than a pair of teenaged 
text messengers equipped with modern cell phones. The victory, which 
replicated a similar challenge that took place recently in Australia, has 
provided immense encouragement to Amateur Radio's community of CW operators, 
who've been ballyhooing the achievement all over the Internet. The text 
messaging team consisted of world text-messaging champ Ben Cook of Utah and 
his friend Jason. Miller said afterward in a reflector posting that the CW 
team won fairly handily.

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