Has anyone else noticed that the Prudential commercial
on TV is sending SMS instead of SOS?
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73, Cecil, IEEE, OOTC, http://www.w5dxp.com

In Cecil Moore
wrote:

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

No, but I understand that some cellphones use "SMS" in morse to signal
an incoming text message (Short Message Service); maybe that's what
you're hearing.

I guess I've never seen that commercial, so I don't know if that makes
any sense in its context.

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Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN

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

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

I read it as "VTTS"

Joe
W2HFD

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

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.

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

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

In article ,
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.

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