[nrv-hams] CW vs SMS from "The Tonight Show"

[Robert McGwier]

And anyone who doesn't know Chip, let me emphasize that the sandbag gambit
is a typical Chip humor attack.

It worked. I was fortunate enough to be alerted by Chip and watched it
live.  My wife was afraid the police would be called I was laughing and
cheering so loudly.

73s
N4HY


On Tue, Dec 14, 2021, 10:32 AM Kay Craigie <kayn3kn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Great fun. Chip Margelli K7JA, one of the CW ops, told me that he and his
> partner sandbagged the kids by sending really slowly during the rehearsal.
> That made the kids over-confident. Then the CW guys turned on the gas
> during the actual show and you see what happened next. 73, Kay N3KN
>
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 10:58 AM Patrick Johnson <
> patrickjohnson1015 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From a friend's Dropbox account.
> >
> > On the May 13, 2005 episode of The Tonight Show, Jay Leno held a Morse
> code
> > vs. SMS speed contest between two Ham Radio operators using Morse code
> and
> > two Millennials using their smartphones for texting (SMS). At least one
> > member of the audience thought texting would win. Watch the video to see
> if
> > she was right.
> >
> >
> >
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/1q7bjivy09m5uke/VIDEO-2020-06-02-15-45-13.mp4?dl=0
> >
> > 73s,
> > Patrick
> > NW8T
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