OT: Morse Code vs. text messaging, who's faster?

[Dan Williams]

On 5/13/05, Computer Collector Newsletter <news at computercollector.com> wrote:
> >From the email list of the NJ Antique Radio Club:
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> Tonight, Friday May 13th, the Tonight Show will feature a message
> sending/receiving contest between a cell phone text messaging team  and
> a Morse code team.
> 
> The Morse code team will consist of Chip Margelli, K7JA and Ken Miller,
> K6CTW. The Tonight Show people called the store yesterday to see if we could
> come up with two fast Morse operators. Chip and Ken does a lot of contests
> and DXpeditions. Joe Drago, props manager for the show is
> KF6OCP.
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> Evan speaking again: am I just out of the loop on radio collector terms --
> do they have something called the "Tonight Show" -- or do ya'll expect they
> mean the ACTUAL show with Jay Leno?
> 

I read this while back :

http://engadget.com/entry/1234000463042528/

I guess they must be trying to replicate it, sounds like a tonight
show sort of thing.

Dan