So, Google renames a 176 year old technology - in current world-wide use - and claims it as their invention? Priceless.

Check out:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KhZKNZO8mQ&feature=player_embedded

Note Google's tag line in the video:    A classic technology. Reinvented.

Currently, attempts to download the app results in the message:
    Oops! Gmail Tap is a bit too popular right now. We suggest you try downloading it again on April 2nd.

I have received multiple email messages from Hams providing the link sent by Brian. The overload probably comes from Hams and other radio operators.

If GMail Tap catches on, a whole lot of people are going to learn Morse Code. We use it to communicate by audio - the Gmail Tap learners will be reading it. Would it be fair to call Gmail Tap a modification of Morse's paper tape? Or a reinvention of Cooke & Wheatstone's printing telegraph?

Interface this app with a radio (Bluetooth) and you could send CW with a smart phone.

Now, the magic questions:

        Did the ARRL have any idea this app was in development?

        Why didn't we think of it first?

        How can we use it to advance AR?
73


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On 4/1/12 9:51 AM, James F. Boehner MD wrote:

Yep, and just received the following non-decoded message on my gmail account:

 

.-  .--.  .-.  ..  .-..    ..-.  ---  ---  .-..

 

It’s about time!

 

J

 

'73 de JIM N2ZZ

ARRL Vice Director

Roanoke Division

ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio™

 

From: arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org [mailto:arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org] On Behalf Of Brian Mileshosky
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 10:27 AM
To: arrl-odv
Subject: [arrl-odv:20668] Google Tap and Ham Radio

 

Google is revolutionizing something near and dear to ham radio operators’ hearts.  Check this out:

 

https://mail.google.com/mail/help/promos/tap/index.html

 

It’s initial release is being offered for a limited time, so snag it while you can if interested.

 

73,

Brian N5ZGT



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