[HCRA] FW: 100th anniversary of the SOS signal

[Daniel Sullivan]

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From: Richard Rucker <rrucker at verizon.net>
To: Ch91 outreach
Subject: 100th anniversary of the SOS signal
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:37:43 -0400

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From: "J D Delancy" <W1JD at drix.net>
Found in and from the November 2006 SMITHSONIAN magazine, page 34:


"100 YEARS AGO SENDING OUT SIGNALS

The International Radiotelegraphic Convention adopts three dots,  three 
dashes and three dots -- SOS in Morse Code -- as the standard  wireless 
distress signal, on November 3, 1906. Chosen because it is  easy to send and 
hard to misinterpret, the signal, which doesn't  actually stand for anything 
-- not even Save Our Ship -- can't save  the Titanic, which sends out  SOSs 
in 1912.  In 1999 a global  satellite system replaces SOS on all large 
ships"

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