[KL7AA] Cell phone text msg vs Morse Code or is it "apples and oranges"

[Dan O'Barr]

I found myself in a very strange situation last night.  I was actually cheering
for Morse code.  Then the thought hit me.  My grandkids could have delivered
the same message by FRS walkie-talkies 10 times faster than Morse code.  
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Let’s see $14 for a pair of FRS walkie-talkies VS a pair of Yaesu FT-817s,
paddles, internal batteries, and after market rubber duckies.  I bet those
Morse code guys spent $1400 to send a wireless message 20 feet.

Oops, BD slipped out,
73 & sorry, Dan KL7DR 

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--- Mike Wood <mike.wood at acsalaska.net> wrote:
From: "Mike Wood" <mike.wood at acsalaska.net>
To: "KL7AA Mail list" <kl7aa at mailman.qth.net>
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 21:12:42 -0800
Subject: [KL7AA] Fw: [pr:5135]  Cell vs Morse Code, video clip


Mike
AL2N


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pete Kemp" <radioguy at tampabay.rr.com>
To: "pr list" <pr at reflector.arrl.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 7:17 AM
Subject: [pr:5135] Cell vs Morse Code, video clip


For those who may have missed the TV show, a friend has made the video 
segment of the Cell Phone Vs Morse Code technology clip.available via the 
Internet.  If the links don't come through the list, check out: 
http://www.ku3o.net
73,
Pete, KZ1Z
PIC - WCF
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Morse Code vs Text Messaging

Which technology do you think is faster?  The following video clips are 
from the Tonight Show which aired on Friday evening, May 13th, 2005. It 
features a message sending/receiving contest between a cell phone text 
messaging team and a team of morse code operators. The morse code team is 
composed of Chip Margelli, K7JA and Ken Miller, K6CTW.
There are two video files below, both are identical except one is encoded 
for RealPlayer and one for Windows Media Player. The RealPlayer file is 
only slightly larger but seems to be quite a bit better video quality for 
the incremental size. If you have RealPlayer, choose the first file 
(".rm"), otherwise, choose the second file (".wmv").

For the best performance, right click on the link that you want and pick 
"Save Target As..." and save it to your local hard drive.

<http://www.ku3o.net/Morse_Competition.rm>Morse_Competition.rm (12.4MB)

<http://www.ku3o.net/Morse_Competition.wmv>Morse_Competition.wmv (9.7 MB)

Enjoy!

George - Ku3o