[QCWA] Sos Versus the French word.

[Norm Gertz]

MAYDAY is correct Joe.....it means emergency in French;  appel de detresse. 
It was also the official distress call for the military during WWII.

73   Norm  K1AA


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph Fenn" <jfenn at lava.net>
To: "Discussion of QCWA" <qcwa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 7:42 PM
Subject: Re: [QCWA] Sos Versus the French word.


> If I remember correctly the comparable signal for voice emgcy
> calls was a french word "Maitai" or someghing like that which
> is MAYDAY.     Means same thing as SOS in cw format.
>                      Joe
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