Good Lord, are you saying that a 1 jigawatt transmitter and an Infinity
times Pi speed ham operator couldn't telepathically float a swamped ship,
and thwart hypothermia of people in the water???
How crass.

Can you tell I'm off today and quite bored? LOL
rb



"Dave" wrote in message
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Cecil Moore wrote:

Dave wrote:

David G. Nagel wrote:

A ham operator intercepted the SOS from the RMS Titanic.


Yep!! It happened once!


If CW had not existed at the time, how would things have
turned out differently? If the present GPS-based system
had existed at the time, how would things have turned out?
Which system is presently inferior and virtually obsolete?

C'mon Cecil, you've been licensed as long as I have. I Know you Know CW.
Does that mean we're virtually obsolete?

RE Titanic:

The same result would have happened. The ship hit an iceberg in poor
visibility. I don't think icebergs carry GPS transponders these days.

Now, the Titanic's GPS; does it have transponder capability? The older GPS
units do not. Anyway, after the crew slipped by the iceberg that ripped it
open, the radio op gets on the air and reports "SOS" or equivalent. The
nearest ships respond. Under conditions similar to 1914{?} the Titanic
still sinks. Many people still die. But, now we know to 20 feet exactly
where the ship was when it sank.

GPS won't make a difference. Neither will CW today.

I still enjoy CW.