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

[Steve Allen]

Oh wow, that is a classic video, beautiful. 

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> On Dec 28, 2021, at 11:20 PM, Robert McGwier <rwmcgwier at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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