"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.
--Wayne

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.
--
73, Cecil, IEEE, OOTC, http://www.w5dxp.com

"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
...
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.
--
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

Wayne wrote:
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.

I received an email from a ham saying that he had
contacted Prudential and they had promised to correct
the Morse code S O S sounds. Is the following true?
___
SOS is usually sent as a prosign, i.e. a single dit
between tones?
--
73, Cecil, IEEE, OOTC, http://www.w5dxp.com

"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
...
Wayne wrote:
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.

I received an email from a ham saying that he had
contacted Prudential and they had promised to correct
the Morse code S O S sounds. Is the following true?
___
SOS is usually sent as a prosign, i.e. a single dit
between tones?
--
73, Cecil, IEEE, OOTC, http://www.w5dxp.com
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I have never heard that is was sent as a prosign, but IMHO it would sound
weird.
--Wayne

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"Wayne" wrote:

"Cecil Moore" wrote in message

... snip

SOS is usually sent as a prosign, i.e. a single dit
between tones?
--
73, Cecil, IEEE, OOTC, http://www.w5dxp.com
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I have never heard that is was sent as a prosign, but IMHO it would sound
weird.
--Wayne


Back in 1949-1950 when I got my first ticket as W8EZE and became the trustee
for the Walnut Hills High School amateur radio club in Cincinnati, the club
had one of those World War Two devices to be used in lifeboats, with a crank
on top, which you held between your legs while turning the crank. It had an
antenna terminal to which we attached a dummy load. It had no other controls
or terminals, just the crank and an antenna terminal. I think it only put
out a few watts. Listening on 500 kc/s (as we called them, in those days)
on I think a BC348 receiver, while turning the crank one heard

.. . . _ _ _ . . . (long space) . . . _ _ _ . . . (long space), and on and
on, as if you were sending one character with nine components, over and over
again. You could write it as
___
SOS

the same way one can write
__
BT

for a double dash, or
__
DN

for a fraction bar (forward slash).

David, ex-W8EZE, who can still picture and and remember hearing the thing --
it was orange

--
David Ryeburn

To send e-mail, use "ca" instead of "caz".

In article ,
David Ryeburn wrote:

In article ,
"Wayne" wrote:

"Cecil Moore" wrote in message

... snip

SOS is usually sent as a prosign, i.e. a single dit
between tones?
--
73, Cecil, IEEE, OOTC, http://www.w5dxp.com
-
I have never heard that is was sent as a prosign, but IMHO it would sound
weird.
--Wayne


Back in 1949-1950 when I got my first ticket as W8EZE and became the trustee
for the Walnut Hills High School amateur radio club in Cincinnati, the club
had one of those World War Two devices to be used in lifeboats, with a crank
on top, which you held between your legs while turning the crank. It had an
antenna terminal to which we attached a dummy load. It had no other controls
or terminals, just the crank and an antenna terminal. I think it only put
out a few watts. Listening on 500 kc/s (as we called them, in those days)
on I think a BC348 receiver, while turning the crank one heard

. . . _ _ _ . . . (long space) . . . _ _ _ . . . (long space), and on and
on, as if you were sending one character with nine components, over and over
again. You could write it as
___
SOS

the same way one can write
__
BT

for a double dash, or
__
DN

for a fraction bar (forward slash).

David, ex-W8EZE, who can still picture and and remember hearing the thing --
it was orange

It was called a "Gibson Girl"

In message , Wayne
writes

"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
...
JoeH wrote:
I read it as "VTTS"

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

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.
--
73, Cecil, IEEE, OOTC, http://www.w5dxp.com