[TowerTalk] Text Messaging VS CW Results - Jay Leno Show

[Roger K8RI on Tower]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck O'Neal" <cdoneal at comcast.net>
To: <paul at w8aef.com>; "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing at gmail.com>; 
<towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 2:10 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Text Messaging VS CW Results - Jay Leno Show


> 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.

I think you will find in the real world under normal conditions voice will 
be considerably slower than that.  At 150 WPM voice begins to sound strange 
and comprehension except for short bursts does not hold up well.  I doubt 
there are very few people who could comfortabley carry on a conversation at 
300 WPM.with the average probably incapable of 150.

You can carry on a conversation at normal reading speed. (How fast can you 
read out loud with a normal sounding voice, prpper emphasis and 
seperation?)Faster than that and the average individual will start losing 
comprehension.   In college I had a number of classes where you could pay 
attention or take notes, but not both. One of those was data base structures 
and theory and we went out to 7th normal form which is a difficult concept 
to begin and takes time to digest.  I cheated.  I wore an ear piece hooked 
to a tape recorder for amplification. I not only could hear better, I could 
record (which was prohibited) with the hearing aid they thought I was 
wearing.

Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member)
N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2
www.rogerhalstead.com
>
> Chuck...K1KW
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <paul at w8aef.com>
> To: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing at gmail.com>; <towertalk at 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 at gmail.com>
>> To: <towertalk at 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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