On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 06:29:54PM -1000, Antonio Querubin wrote: > On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Paul Ferguson wrote: > > >Old skool. > > > >Twitter is much faster: > > > >http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/government-disaster-advisors-twitter-ha > >cked-used-to-send-tsunami-warning/408447 > > But morse code is still faster :) > > http://www.google.com/search?q=morse+code+beats+texting&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Faster and doesn't require infrastructure (other than possibly electrical power). Those hams were throttled _way_ back, too, to about 21 words per minute; I frequently hear Morse at speeds up to about 50 wpm in the ham bands. -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin
