Thread: If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
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Default If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that persondie?
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
It's totaly untrue. The Californian's radio operator ignored the
Titanic's distress signals because the Titanic was a Marconi ship and
the Californian was a Telefunken ship.

If the History Channel got it right, the Californian's CW
operator was asleep by the time the Titanic hit the iceberg.
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73, Cecil, http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp
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