[bigbob]

Correct, it was on Leno.

And of course Morse can be done on every physical layer from a lighting circuit to microwaves bounced off the moon, whereas text messaging is only possible as long as you’re within range of a base station and all needed man-made infrastructure is in place and working.

But even when it is, it’s still slower because the Morse message is received in real time whereas texting is packet based and nothing even starts to be transmitted until the entire message has been entered.

[Okieshooter]

“microwaves bounced off the moon”

I have witnessed my friend K5JL doing just that.

[Okieshooter]

Once back in the seventies when I was a two way radio tech we were setting levels in a phone line controlled remote repeater. Anyway I could not get the handset to work that I was communcating with the techs on the other end. I could hear them but they could not hear me.

There happened to be a tone oscillator in the repeater and the tech on the other end was a ham so I improvised and we finished the job with me using an alligator clip to tap out code.

[dragnet2]

You bet bob!

[Erasmus]

And of course Morse can be done on every physical layer from a lighting circuit to microwaves bounced off the moon [...]

...to the plumbing in the Hanoi Hilton.