Um....an "exchange" in a CW contest is vastly different than sending an
information based message with real words as done on the Tonight Show.
Voice will win out since one can understand up to 300 words a minute
although the average is 150 WPM or so.
Chuck...K1KW
----- Original Message -----
From: <paul@w8aef.com>
To: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 12:21 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Text Messaging VS CW Results - Jay Leno Show
> I don't think this is true with voice. Let the contesters log in on this
> one for voice vs cw rates.
>
> And for traffic handling where accurracy is critical cw will win every
time.
>
> de Paul, W8AEF
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
> To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 4:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Text Messaging VS CW Results - Jay Leno Show
>
>
> > Well I think my cell phone beats CW when it comes to sending pictures
> > and mp3s, not to mention plain old voice! Theoretically, you could
> > uuencode a voice file or photo and send by CW, but it wouldn't be much
> > fun...
> >
> > 73 Martin AA6E
>
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