[SCCC] Tonight Show clip

[Art - W6KY]

For those of you who missed Chip and Ken on the tonight show, here is 
the link.

http://www.kkn.net/~n6tv/Text_vs_Morse_Leno_2005_05_13.wmv

73,  Art  W6KY

Also, here is an eMail from Ken with the background to the skit

*A few more points for clarification: When my XYL, Connie, originally
answered the call, at my home, from the producers of the show, she
explained that I operated both codes and that I considered myself to be
a good but not exceptional operator. However, she is the one who "sold"
the producers that the skit could work. She also did a VERY credible
job of explaining Morse telegraphy and the radio code and its uses. (You
all might think to send her a thanks too as without her, this would never
have happened cjcarroll2 at earthlink.net ) When they contacted me later
that afternoon, I explained that my wife was correct, I am a competent
CW and Morse operator. Your point is interesting in that they did try
and get the fastest text messengers they could fly in. I did however
explain that if the Tonight Show folks had been able to get the
equivalent world record holder in CW to do this, it would have been at
almost TRIPLE the speed we were going at. The reason, as I have
explained before, that we worked at about 28 or so wpm is that this is
the fastest speed that I can make nice readable copy with a pencil as
they did not have the ability to let me use a typewriter for copy (and
I thought they were going to do a camera shot of my copy for
verification). Also, since we did not have the time to set up
headphones, I just added some extra volume for me, had the stage folks
cut my mike (to prevent feedback and overload) and copied off of the
speaker. To re-emphasize the point, I'm just an average CW op who
occasionally operates the CW SS QRP, with my K2 of course, and really
enjoys CW, and traffic handling. By the way, the radios used were
Chip's not from Yaesu and the backup radios were from HRO.
73, Ken, K6CTW *