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Give those guys a phone with a keyboard and we'll see who wins then :p

Funny video though. I liked how the girl was so confident that text messaging would win :D
 

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I picked Morse Code. I would have almost bet on it unless the Ham doods were very slow. Thanks for the video!!
 

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Give those guys a phone with a keyboard and we'll see who wins then :p

Funny video though. I liked how the girl was so confident that text messaging would win :D

Depending on how fast the person with the keyboard can type and how fast the coder can use their Key it could still be very close, but I know what you mean. :D

I have messed with Ham Radio a bit, just not a really good code sender.
 
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I wonder if the SMS Messager wasn't very experienced and the morse code guy was.
 
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They should try again, but get that 13 year old girl that won the national texting competition.

In the end, morse code will win b/c the person on the other end is getting the transmission in real time while the texter has to send and receiver has to open it when done.
 
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It's interesting to reflect (well, for a moment or two, anyway) that the world has been using digital communication for 160 or 170 years.
 
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Good point! Didn't think of it that way.
 
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who said morse code is digital?
 
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This wasn't really a fair comparison since the Morse guys were pros and the text guy was just an avenge Joe.

Notice how neither of the Morse Code guys had to look at their gear. Once guy just clicked and read and the other guy just wrote. The text sending guy keeps looking between his phone and paper on the table.
 
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who said morse code is digital?
I found this on Wikipedia.
Morse code can be transmitted in a number of ways: originally as electrical pulses along a telegraph wire, but also as an audio tone, as a radio signal with short and long pulses or tones, or as a mechanical or visual signal (e.g. a flashing light) using devices like an Aldis lamp or a heliograph. Morse code is transmitted using just two states — on and off — so it was an early form of a digital code. However, it is technically not binary, as the pause lengths are required to decode the information.
 
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Great info. thanks.
 
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This wasn't really a fair comparison since the Morse guys were pros and the text guy was just an avenge Joe.

Notice how neither of the Morse Code guys had to look at their gear. Once guy just clicked and read and the other guy just wrote. The text sending guy keeps looking between his phone and paper on the table.

You don't need to know anything special to text, but you do for morse code, so to be even fairly accurate and quick, you'd have to be a pro.
 
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You don't need to know anything special to text, but you do for morse code, so to be even fairly accurate and quick, you'd have to be a pro.

Depends on what you consider a "pro". Anyone can do Morse code with the code and alphabet laid out in front of them, just as anyone can text with the alphabet laid out on the keypad. I'm sure most experienced texters could text without the letters on the keys though. So would you consider them to be pros?

I still think the best texter in the world next to an average "pro" Morse Code sender could not come out on top just because you receive the code in real time whereas the text is delayed by sending/receiving and opening/reading the message after it's "coded in".

EDIT: I must be pretty bored to get so involved in such a simple little goofy contest. :p
 
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I still think the best texter in the world next to an average "pro" Morse Code sender could not come out on top just because you receive the code in real time whereas the text is delayed by sending/receiving and opening/reading the message after it's "coded in".

Agree completely. Network traffic on your provider can cause even more delays.
 
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EDIT: I must be pretty bored to get so involved in such a simple little goofy contest. :p
It was a stunt, not a contest, and everyone must have known it. If they didn't, there must have been some sort of rehersal where it would have become obvious.

Thumbing in text and having it go through its intermediary steps couldn't match the speed of the telegraph sending at the speed of light from the beginning.
 

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