[CQ-Contest] [YCCC] Tonight Show Video

[George Johnson]

Jim,
Great job on the editing...  should be fun in Dayton.
See you there,
George .. W1ZT


At 02:15 AM 5/15/2005, Jim Idelson wrote:
>These guys did an awesome job!
>
>I recorded the whole show digitally, and I will plan to have a fun, edited
>version on my laptop in Dayton.
>
>Want a preview on the web? Try http://www.k1ir.com/TonightShow.htm
>
>73,
>
>Jim Idelson K1IR
>email    k1ir at k1ir.com
>web    http://www.k1ir.com
>
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>
>FROM: "Rich Gelber" <k2wr at njdxa.org>
>TO:   "YCCC Reflector" <yccc at yccc.org>
>DATE: Sat, 14 May 2005 16:39:13 -0400
>
>RE:   Re: [YCCC] CW FOREVER!
>
>A few lessons learned from the Tonight Show demonstration:
>(with apologies since all of this, except the actual result, was obviously 
>set
>up)
>
>1. Someone described the W.U. telegraphers' outfits as a nice touch.  I'll go
>much further!  It was brilliant.  TV is a visual medium and the costumes are
>what will help the general public to remember this stunt, to the extent that
>they do.
>
>2. Everybody has a different agenda.  For Jay Leno, the demonstration was 
>about
>new technology versus old technology.  For Chip, it was important to plug ham
>radio.  It wasn't necessary for the purposes of the message speed demo 
>even to
>mention ham radio.  The theme was telegraphy, not radio.  However, Chip is a
>marketing guy, and he made sure to mention ham radio, despite the dubious
>relevance.  Remember, no explanation was given for the keying method, radios
>used, frequencies, etc.  The Tonight Show didn't care about any of 
>that.  Chip
>is to be commended, even more than for winning the test, for making sure that
>he got the ham radio plug in there.
>
>3. Time is the great enemy of anybody with an idea about something to put 
>on TV
>(except for the advertisers).   When Chip said he'd been at this for "40 
>years
>in ham radio", Jay Leno could have replied "Wait a minute! How old are you?"
>The discussion that might have ensued from that could have helped ham radio
>more than any dozen SAREX QSO's with schools (which I'm not putting down 
>in any
>way).  But, as I said, time is the great enemy.
>
>4. Someone said that it was somewhat remarkable to pull this off using
>speakers.  That's true, but we don't really know whether one or the other
>operators had an earbud plugged in.  That would never have been explained,
>since it would not really have been relevant to the central theme.
>
>5. Some kid somewhere is thinking about the larger implications of this
>demonstration.  They're not all like the entertainment and clothes obsessed
>future rocket scientists I overhear at the mall.  Even without the 
>discussion I
>suggested above about Chip's presumed age when he started, anybody could 
>figure
>it out.  Then the mythical kid who has better things to do than hang out 
>at the
>mall might even figure out that the skill he saw demonstrated could be 
>learned
>with practice and determination.  But that's a discussion for another show
>which I don't expect to see... but I've been wrong before.
>
>Someone asked about tapes.  W2MLS taped it for me since I didn't expect to be
>able to watch it live (although I wound up being able to anyway).  Mike will
>probably have the tape with him in Dayton.  See me in the NJDXA suite.
>
>Rich K2WR/6 in NoCal for a few days
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