[R-390] CW/SMS Battle on Tonight Show Friday 13th!

[Barry]

There was an article on cnn.com a few weeks ago about some British gentlemen
who did this.  Old-timers as I recall (maybe 90 years old?).  They did beat
the text-messaging folks!

Barry - N4BUQ

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Norris" <r390a at bellsouth.net>
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Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 7:28 PM
Subject: [R-390] CW/SMS Battle on Tonight Show Friday 13th!


> Got this heads-up from a local ham. What store? HRO maybe?
>
> Tom
>
> > Tomorrow, Friday May 13th, the Tonight Show will feature a message
> > sending/receiving contest between a cell phone text messaging team
> > and a
> > morse code team. The morse code team will consist of Chip Margelli,
> > K7JA
> > and Ken Miller, K6CTW. The Tonight Show people called the store
> > yesterday
> > to see if we could come up with two fast morse operators. Chip and
> > Ken do
> > a lot of contests and DXpeditions. Joe Drago, props manager for the
> > show is
> > KF6OCP.
>
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