More Clarifications on the Tonight Show - from K6CTW

[Ken Miller K6CTW]

*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 [hidden email] ) 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, whith 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 *

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[Rod Hotz]

Outstanding, Ken! When I wrote Chip yesterday, I asked him if those were K2s
the two of you were using. ;-))

Cheers,

Rod
K5BGB


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Miller, K6CTW" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 12:14 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] More Clarifications on the Tonight Show - from K6CTW

> *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 [hidden email] ) 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, whith 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 *
>
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[Tom McCulloch]

Ken,
 Cool, really, really cool!  Great job.

Those guys text messaging mentioned that they set the record by sending
about 160 characters in just under a minute.  That comes to about 32 wpm,
not counting wherever it goes to get relayed around.

Here is site that has a file of the segment...forwarded to me by Jeff WB5GWB
in our local group.

Thanks agn.

Tom WB2QDG

K2 1103
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Miller, K6CTW" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 1:14 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] More Clarifications on the Tonight Show - from K6CTW

> *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 [hidden email] ) 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, whith 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 *
>
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[Tom McCulloch]

Oops her is the site that has the file - sorry
Tom

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


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom McCulloch" <[hidden email]>
To: "Ken Miller, K6CTW" <[hidden email]>; <[hidden email]>
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] More Clarifications on the Tonight Show - from K6CTW

> Ken,
> Cool, really, really cool!  Great job.
>
> Those guys text messaging mentioned that they set the record by sending
> about 160 characters in just under a minute.  That comes to about 32 wpm,
> not counting wherever it goes to get relayed around.
>
> Here is site that has a file of the segment...forwarded to me by Jeff
> WB5GWB in our local group.
>
> Thanks agn.
>
> Tom WB2QDG
>
> K2 1103
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ken Miller, K6CTW" <[hidden email]>
> To: <[hidden email]>
> Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 1:14 PM
> Subject: [Elecraft] More Clarifications on the Tonight Show - from K6CTW
>
>
>> *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 [hidden email] ) 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, whith 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 *
>>
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