[CW] Morse Code - 19 people rescued, you're next, don't lose hope.

[N7DC]

Only if that had been o58  or maybe 052 MOS.  I still had to think about 
it when I listened, because it was in Spanish.




> Ken Brown <mailto:ken.d.brown at hawaiiantel.net>
> Saturday, February 09, 2013 4:43 PM
> Good for Columbia, having soldiers trained in Morse. I wonder if that 
> would have worked if they had been American soldiers?
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> John Westerlage <mailto:john at n5dwi.com>
> Friday, February 08, 2013 5:57 PM
>
> The number of kidnappings in the country of Colombia have always been 
> high.
>
> By 2000, it was estimated that 3,752 people had been kidnapped in the 
> in South American country. While numbers have dropped dramatically 
> over the last 10 years, the rate of kidnappings in Colombia is still 
> one of the highest in the world. And that number includes hundreds of 
> missing policemen and military personnel.
>
> The government of Colombia wanted to try to communicate to its 
> kidnapped soldiers. They wanted to boost their morale, and let them 
> know they are not forgotten.
>
> The government also wanted these kidnapped soldiers to know the 
> government is coming for them.
>
> But how they chose to do this was remarkable.
>
> Because radios are commonly played in the jungle camps of the 
> kidnappers, the government, along with advertising agency DDB, devised 
> a way to talk to the kidnapped soldiers via radio - without the 
> kidnappers knowing.
>
> Essentially, they used a code.
>
> First, a song was written. The song was titled "Better Days" and the 
> message of the lyrics said that - even though you feel forgotten and 
> alone - better days are coming and we will see each other again soon.
>
> While the lyrics were meant to be uplifting, they alone wouldn't have 
> got the attention of the kidnapped soldiers.
>
> Something else would do that.
>
> Morse code. Something all kidnapped military personnel were trained to 
> understand.
>
> A message in Morse code was created, that said:
>
> "19 people rescued, you're next, don't lose hope."
>
> The Morse Code was then re-composed as music inside the song. While 
> the lyric sent out one message, the Morse Code sent out the real one:
>
> *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xTYQcugD1c*
>
> It was an extraordinary solution, because for the first time in a 
> decade, the voices of the Military Forces of Colombia broke through 
> enemy lines and reached their men with a message of strength and hope.
>
> And they did it by taking radio's biggest strength - its extraordinary 
> ability to reach into the jungle - and sampled it with 21st century 
> thinking.
>
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