[QCWA] 100th anniversary of the SOS signal; CQD was its predecessor

[Richard Rucker]

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From: "Albers" <k2hyd at earthlink.net>
Date: October 25, 2006 10:11:37 AM EDT
To: "Richard Rucker" <rrucker at verizon.net>
Subject: Re: 100th anniversary of the SOS signal

Hmmm, not so sure Titanic ever used SOS?? A couple of years ago there  
was a Titanic exhibit at the Postal Museum in DC and someone (maybe  
it was QCWA??) had set up a part of the display, which depicted the  
radio shack, and had an audio loop playing a raspy tone reminiscent  
of what spark transmissions sounded like. Listening to it, I copied  
CQD rather than SOS - and the callsign was MGY. I just did a Google  
search and found my memory was accurate - see

<http://www.oceanliner.org/titanic_radio.htm>

73
Ray K2HYD

----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Rucker"  
<rrucker at verizon.net>
To: <Ch91 members>; <Ch91 friends>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 9:37 AM
Subject: 100th anniversary of the SOS signal


> Begin forwarded message:
>
> 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"