I didn't record it, but that's okay, as it turned out to be not worth recording. The "contest" was ridiculous. The guys doing Morse Code had a direct connection to each other, with what appeared to be ordinary wireless computer routers. The kids doing text messaging were just using their cell phones, which means the signal had to travel through the theater walls, onto the cloud, and back into the theater. The contest was billed as "who is the fastest messager" but that's just silly because obviously the kids cannot control what the phone companies do. Granted, it was just for entertainment value, and succeeded at that. -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Charles Blackburn Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 9:09 PM To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' Subject: RE: Morse Code vs. text messaging, who's faster? Probably a bit late, but could sum1 record it and post it for us non-US people that don't get it? Regards and 73 Charles 2E0GOM ARICC UK Co-ordinator - http://www.aricc.org -----Original Message----- From: Computer Collector Newsletter [mailto:news at computercollector.com] Sent: 13 May 2005 20:09 To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' Subject: OT: Morse Code vs. text messaging, who's faster? ------------------ Tonight, 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 does a lot of contests and DXpeditions. Joe Drago, props manager for the show is KF6OCP. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.8 - Release Date: 10/05/2005