Yes, and I was watching the talking heads this morning when the Prudential commercial came on with the corrected SOS audio.

I started laughing when I saw/heard the correction and said to my wife "I wonder if anyone else notices the error, and now the correction?"

I did a google search which led me here. LOL

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
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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".

If you listen carefully, I think they are sending VMS. You could make the case that it's a really bad "fist" trying to send SOS.

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 Cecil Moore
wrote:

Has anyone else noticed that the Prudential commercial
on TV is sending SMS instead of SOS?

Finally saw a commercial that's probably the one you're talking about.

It sounded more like "VMS" to me, but based strictly on the dots and
dashes, ignoring the timing, it was "SOS."

--
Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN

"Bert Hyman" wrote in message
...
In Cecil Moore
wrote:

Has anyone else noticed that the Prudential commercial
on TV is sending SMS instead of SOS?

Finally saw a commercial that's probably the one you're talking about.

It sounded more like "VMS" to me, but based strictly on the dots and
dashes, ignoring the timing, it was "SOS."

--
Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN
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After hearing the "corrected" version of the commercial where "S O S" was
definitely sent.....I again heard the "original" version on a different
channel. So, they have two versions now. BTW, I still copy "VTTS".
--Wayne
W5GIE

billm wrote:
'Cecil Moore[_2_ Wrote:
;692592']Has anyone else noticed that the Prudential commercial
on TV is sending SMS instead of SOS?
--
73, Cecil, IEEE, OOTC, http://www.w5dxp.com

If you listen carefully, I think they are sending VMS. You could make
the case that it's a really bad "fist" trying to send SOS.


You guys beat this one to death surely!

How about a new one? Analysis of the MASH episode where the 4077th
performs a bris by Morse code.

- 73 de Mike N3LI -

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After hearing the "corrected" version of the commercial where "S O S" was
definitely sent.....I again heard the "original" version on a different
channel. So, they have two versions now. BTW, I still copy "VTTS".
--Wayne
W5GIE

Perhaps it was sent by Hashfisti Scratchi.
John Ferrell W8CCW