[SMCARA] Historical Trvia

[J D Delancy]

Found 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"