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 *-----------------------------------------------------* ** John Robert Stratton N5AUS West Gulf Division Vice Director West Gulf Division Legislative Action Chair Office telephone: 512-445-6262 Cell: 512-426-2028 PO Box 2232 Austin, Texas 78768-2232 *-----------------------------------------------------* 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^(TM)***

*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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Back in the 1990s we had a Maryland/DC Section Manager named Ken Cohen NI3F. He was great fun to work the ARRL booth with because he was very well educated and clever, and we never ran out of things to talk about. Unfortunately he had to resign because as a rabbi, he just didn't have the free time, especially on weekends, to get to all the hamfests and do the SM job up to his personal standards. I still hear from him occasionally, like the three messages that came today: * ARRL lab has announced the creation of virtual sunspots: can be uploaded by computer to ionosphere. (But only works on April Fools Day.) * Nobel Prize to be awarded to ham who invented Pixie dust which sprinkled on paperclip antenna increases by gain by 10db (& 12db on April 1). * Malware alert: causes out of band ham operators to glow in the dark while using CW (but only on April 1). 73 - Kay N3KN