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Re: The scale of streaming video on the Internet.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Painter)
Fri Dec 3 17:11:54 2010

From: "Michael Painter" <tvhawaii@shaka.com>
To: "mikea" <mikea@mikea.ath.cx>,
	"NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 12:11:27 -1000
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

mikea wrote:
> 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.

In '56 ( I was 13 yrs old...got my General at 11), I handled traffic on PAN (Pacific Area Net) at around 30 wpm with a bug 
and a stick, stick being a pencil.
Bug here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHz2rEiFnfw&feature=related

--Michael (ex K6IYC) 



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