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

[Eric Krichinsky]

I saw this story or atleast a similar one one
slashdot.org a while ago. The text that had to be sent
was "You go girlfriend" and the guys using morse code
won. This includes abreviations used in text messaging
by the teenagers.


--- Al Bisasky <al.bisasky at verizon.net> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Read the rest of this story on the ARRL website:
> www.arrl.org
> 
> 
>
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