CW > T9
This is great. A contest was recently held between a 13 year old girl w/ a T9-enabled cell phone and a 93 year old telegraph operator to see who could send a prescribed line of text the fastest. Well despite the 13 year old’s speedy thumb and predictive text entry, she still got her butt whooped by the morse code-wielding telegraph operator.
Back in grade school, I bought some morse training tapes, and started working through them for a few days, but as usually happens, I got distracted by some other endeavor and forgot about the morse tapes. Oh well. Maybe someday I’ll actually get my Amateur Radio license (not that I need another hobby).
Edit…Thanks for Mr. Miller for the vid. Here’s a video of a similar contest that was aired on Leno a while back.
They did the same thing on Jay Leno a few months ago.. I still have the video (can’t remember where I got it..?)
The morse coder kicked the SMSer (who could supposedly do 160 wpm) in the pants.
Interesting…I didn’t hear about the contest on Leno. That would have been fun to see.
Correction… 160cpm not wpm
Here’s a link to the video (8.20 MB)…