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Has anyone else noticed that the Prudential commercial
on TV is sending SMS instead of SOS?
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Yep. But it is so poorly sent that is seems like "VTTS" to me.
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On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 20:08:07 -0800, "Wayne"
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"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
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Has anyone else noticed that the Prudential commercial
on TV is sending SMS instead of SOS?
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Yep. But it is so poorly sent that is seems like "VTTS" to me.

I've been coping VMS.

--Wayne
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On the screen is a dot-dot-dot, dash-dash-dash, dot-dot-dot.

But the sound is di-di-dit, dah-dah, di-di-dit.[/i][/color]
I read it as "VTTS"

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On Nov 5, 12:28*am, Cecil Moore wrote:
Has anyone else noticed that the Prudential commercial
on TV is sending SMS instead of SOS?
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JoeH wrote:
I read it as "VTTS"


Can't be - there are only two dahs.
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"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
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JoeH wrote:
I read it as "VTTS"


Can't be - there are only two dahs.
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I copy "VTTS" also.
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Wayne wrote:
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Can't be - there are only two dahs.


I copy "VTTS" also.


There must be more than one version of that
commercial. On the one I viewed, there were
only two dahs.
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In message , Wayne
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"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
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JoeH wrote:
I read it as "VTTS"


Can't be - there are only two dahs.
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73, Cecil, IEEE, OOTC, http://www.w5dxp.com

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I copy "VTTS" also.


In the UK, the only 'SMS' morse I've ever heard is 'SMS' with no breaks
(di-di-di-dah-dah-di-di-dit). Why would it be otherwise?
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Ian Jackson wrote:
In the UK, the only 'SMS' morse I've ever heard is 'SMS' with no breaks
(di-di-di-dah-dah-di-di-dit). Why would it be otherwise?


It appears that, for that Prudential commercial, the
spacing between the dahs is longer than the spacing
between the dits.
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"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
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Wayne wrote:
"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
Can't be - there are only two dahs.


I copy "VTTS" also.


There must be more than one version of that
commercial. On the one I viewed, there were
only two dahs.
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73, Cecil, IEEE, OOTC, http://www.w5dxp.com

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In whatever case ....on CBS "Sunday Morning" today, I heard the commercial
with the corrected morse. It now says "S O S", with word spacing
between the characters. Wonder if they got "helpful feedback" from the ham
community.
--Wayne


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