Thread: If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
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Old September 29th 06, 02:46 AM posted to rec.radio.swap,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Dave Oldridge Dave Oldridge is offline
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Default So, Which reader has actually saved a life or lives using "CW" on Ham Bands?
Slow Code wrote in news:SPYSg.4010$o71.3724
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" wrote in
oups.com:

Please, don't all jump in at once with all the unproven
bragging and dozens of local weekly newspaper clippings.

Let's hear it for the mode that saved the Titanic survivors
in 1912...

Don't know about whether it saved any lives or not, but I once took a very
important NOTAM (Notice to Airman) on CW from a guy in the Aleutians in the
days following the 1964 quake and put it on the proper teletype circuits
for him.

His airport's altitude was changing so that charts and other info were
inaccurate.




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