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Has anyone else noticed that the Prudential commercial
on TV is sending SMS instead of SOS? -- 73, Cecil, IEEE, OOTC, http://www.w5dxp.com |
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On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:28:15 -0600, Cecil Moore
wrote: Has anyone else noticed that the Prudential commercial on TV is sending SMS instead of SOS? Which commercial? There's quite a collection of Prudential TV commercials on YouTube, but I can't tell which one. -- Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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Cecil Moore wrote: Has anyone else noticed that the Prudential commercial on TV is sending SMS instead of SOS? I recall that decades ago, there was an FCC prohibition against the inclusion of the SOS pro-signal in commercial radio and television broadcasts. You weren't supposed to ever transmit this signal unless you were actually in distress. TV shows would either just *refer* to their being an SOS in progress, or would transit some other Morse code signal as a substitute, or both. I remember one Star Trek episode in which the substitute signal was actually a very-low-speed FSK signal (high and low tones, about an octave apart). I don't know whether the legal prohibition against transmitting SOS on commercial radio/TV still exists today, or whether it was dropped during the big deregulation. -- Dave Platt AE6EO Friends of Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads! |
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Dave Platt wrote:
I don't know whether the legal prohibition against transmitting SOS on commercial radio/TV still exists today, or whether it was dropped during the big deregulation. Yes, it was dropped a long time ago. To answer another posting at the same time, the brand of cell phones is Nokia. The default SMS alert is the morse code SMS. BTW, it was never SOS as three seperate letters, the official distress call ___ was SOS (written with a line over it) the three letters run together such as we do for SK. It was in marine use preceded with a long dash (I'm not a marine operator so I don't know how long) to trigger automated monitoring equipment, but that was a relatively modern invention. (1950's??) That way words like Sosnow (the name of my high school auto shop teacher) would not cause a problem. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM |
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Bert Hyman wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote: Has anyone else noticed that the Prudential commercial on TV is sending SMS instead of SOS? I guess I've never seen that commercial, so I don't know if that makes any sense in its context. 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. -- 73, Cecil, IEEE, OOTC, http://www.w5dxp.com |
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Jeff Liebermann wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote: Has anyone else noticed that the Prudential commercial on TV is sending SMS instead of SOS? Which commercial? There's quite a collection of Prudential TV commercials on YouTube, but I can't tell which one. http://www.smartbrief.com/news/aaaa/...2-6B6C4495A79A -- 73, Cecil, IEEE, OOTC, http://www.w5dxp.com |
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Jeff Liebermann wrote:
Which commercial? There's quite a collection of Prudential TV commercials on YouTube, but I can't tell which one. Referenced on the commercial: http://www.prudential.com/b2b -- 73, Cecil, IEEE, OOTC, http://www.w5dxp.com |
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"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" wrote in message ... Dave Platt wrote: I don't know whether the legal prohibition against transmitting SOS on commercial radio/TV still exists today, or whether it was dropped during the big deregulation. Yes, it was dropped a long time ago. To answer another posting at the same time, the brand of cell phones is Nokia. The default SMS alert is the morse code SMS. BTW, it was never SOS as three seperate letters, the official distress call ___ was SOS (written with a line over it) the three letters run together such as we do for SK. It was in marine use preceded with a long dash (I'm not a marine operator so I don't know how long) to trigger automated monitoring equipment, but that was a relatively modern invention. (1950's??) That way words like Sosnow (the name of my high school auto shop teacher) would not cause a problem. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM Geoff, A series of twelve four-second dashes, spaced one second apart, was sent by an automatic keyer on 500 kHz. Any automatic distress receiver in the vicinity would be triggered to operate an alarm after picking up four dashes. The extra dashes were to overcome atmospheric noise and increase the chance of the signals being picked up. Four consecutive dashes meant that the automatic alarm wasn't triggered too often in the tropics. The Radio Officer would be woken in his cabin by a bell and had 2 minutes to get to the radio room and switch the main receiver on to receive the distress message. Sometimes the alarm would go off half a dozen times in a night during storms around the European coast in winter. Didn't get a lot of sleep for several days sometimes. Regards Mike G0ULI |
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Cecil Moore wrote:
Bert Hyman wrote: Cecil Moore wrote: Has anyone else noticed that the Prudential commercial on TV is sending SMS instead of SOS? I guess I've never seen that commercial, so I don't know if that makes any sense in its context. 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. Saw it tonight for the first time and it is as you say. tom K0TAR |
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