I'd like to apologize to everyone that views my postings as filled with excessively sarcasm. The intent of my jokes was just a friendly jibe. Certainly, not intended to target any persons here: it was just to characterize the contrived nature of the test from my perspective.
I think everyone in FIRST has much to contribute and a free exchange of ideas is a good thing.
I have been a communications engineer for close to 30 years, architecting and engineering digital and fibre optic telecommunications systems for Bell Labs. It's probably an even bet or better, that the packets you received to be reading this posting, have traveled over one or more systems I helped develop.
My personal opinion is Claude Shannon did dramatically more, for the progress of communications theory, than Morse ever did: (Shannon did so much more engineering based on mathematics). Morse and many others were doing great work in the electrical telegraph field: Morse engineered a great recorder, got a key patent and a good business plan and made the most of it. But that is just my perspective and I hope you don't take offense because I choose to express it. BTW, I've got coworkers that I lunch with that are big into Ham radio: plenty of them spend many times more on their radios than on their cellphones: I simultaneously rib them and envy them too.

One Elmer uses a spud cannon to shoot lines to pull antennas through the trees. (A non-destructive practical use for a spud cannon!) I also have one engineering friend that has his own half ton steam engine locomotive that he drives around his backyard.
I think older technology is great and stands on its own without contrived tests. I've seen a horse beat a race car in a speed race too: but that is certainly not why I appreciate horses.
Great older technology certainly does not need contrived tests offered by stand-up comics. The engineer in me cringes at such gimmicks that are intentionally spun to demonstrate an outcome and have no serious analog to practical application: but salesmen tend to love such unfair hooks because it gets attention. For radio/MC, an emergency message sending demonstration is much more appealing to the engineering side of my brain.
From my experience, most engineers tend to gristle at gimmicks.