If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
Ham's care more about operating appliances than knowing how to save a lives.
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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that persondie?
Cecil Moore wrote:
Dirk wrote: Ham's care more about operating appliances than knowing how to save a lives. How many times in the entire history of amateur radio has a ham used CW to actually save a life? One would think there would be a book full of examples by now. A ham operator intercepted the SOS from the RMS Titanic. |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
David G. Nagel wrote: Cecil Moore wrote: Dirk wrote: Ham's care more about operating appliances than knowing how to save a lives. How many times in the entire history of amateur radio has a ham used CW to actually save a life? One would think there would be a book full of examples by now. A ham operator intercepted the SOS from the RMS Titanic. how many life were saved thereby the Carpathia wheard the call and arrived to save some folks what role did the ARS playing in saving even one life that sorry day? |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that persondie?
David G. Nagel wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote: How many times in the entire history of amateur radio has a ham used CW to actually save a life? One would think there would be a book full of examples by now. A ham operator intercepted the SOS from the RMS Titanic. Did that save even one life? If the Titanic's CW operator had not bullied the California's CW operator off the air, the California might have saved the day. But after such shabby treatment from the Titanic's arrogant CW operator, the California's CW operator shut down and turned in. -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that persondie?
an old friend wrote:
David G. Nagel wrote: Cecil Moore wrote: Dirk wrote: Ham's care more about operating appliances than knowing how to save a lives. How many times in the entire history of amateur radio has a ham used CW to actually save a life? One would think there would be a book full of examples by now. A ham operator intercepted the SOS from the RMS Titanic. how many life were saved thereby the Carpathia wheard the call and arrived to save some folks what role did the ARS playing in saving even one life that sorry day? We aren't talking about failure to receive a CW SOS. Those ships that responded did so after receiving word of the sinking by radio. They saved many lives from the lifeboats which would otherwise have been lost to the cold. Dave N |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that persondie?
David G. Nagel wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote: Dirk wrote: Ham's care more about operating appliances than knowing how to save a lives. How many times in the entire history of amateur radio has a ham used CW to actually save a life? One would think there would be a book full of examples by now. A ham operator intercepted the SOS from the RMS Titanic. Yep!! It happened once! |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
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On 12 Jul 2006 10:24:55 -0700, "an old freind" wrote: if i was at my home station is no they would not die and I am as no code as they come I down right hate the mode and yet y pc and station is quite able to work cw as needed to save a life if it was needed ------------ REPLY SEPARATOR ------------ He apparently hates English too. Bill, W6WRT |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that persondie?
Dave wrote:
David G. Nagel wrote: A ham operator intercepted the SOS from the RMS Titanic. Yep!! It happened once! If CW had not existed at the time, how would things have turned out differently? If the present GPS-based system had existed at the time, how would things have turned out? Which system is presently inferior and virtually obsolete? -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ TROLL-O-METER Bill, W6WRT There I fixed it for you |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
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Really cute, Bill...I love it. 73, Steve, K9DCI P.S. I tilted my monitor and I see that this movement is a little out of balance on the sides. End-to-end balance is ok. Carefully turn the balance weight on the right side in a little, then it'll sit on zero regardless of the orientation... "R. Scott" wrote in message ... ------------ REPLY SEPARATOR ------------ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ TROLL-O-METER Bill, W6WRT There I fixed it for you |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that persondie?
Cecil Moore wrote:
Dave wrote: David G. Nagel wrote: A ham operator intercepted the SOS from the RMS Titanic. Yep!! It happened once! If CW had not existed at the time, how would things have turned out differently? If the present GPS-based system had existed at the time, how would things have turned out? Which system is presently inferior and virtually obsolete? C'mon Cecil, you've been licensed as long as I have. I Know you Know CW. Does that mean we're virtually obsolete? RE Titanic: The same result would have happened. The ship hit an iceberg in poor visibility. I don't think icebergs carry GPS transponders these days. Now, the Titanic's GPS; does it have transponder capability? The older GPS units do not. Anyway, after the crew slipped by the iceberg that ripped it open, the radio op gets on the air and reports "SOS" or equivalent. The nearest ships respond. Under conditions similar to 1914{?} the Titanic still sinks. Many people still die. But, now we know to 20 feet exactly where the ship was when it sank. GPS won't make a difference. Neither will CW today. I still enjoy CW. |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
Dave wrote: Cecil Moore wrote: C'mon Cecil, you've been licensed as long as I have. I Know you Know CW. Does that mean we're virtually obsolete? not what make CW obseltete is that is out dated and all bu useless serious comms GPS won't make a difference. Neither will CW today. meaning in light of the trolig title is useless I still enjoy CW. more power to you |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that persondie?
Dirk wrote:
Ham's care more about operating appliances than knowing how to save a lives. :-( PLONK! tom K0TAR |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
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On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:04:06 GMT, "R. Scott" wrote: ------------ REPLY SEPARATOR ------------ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ TROLL-O-METER Bill, W6WRT There I fixed it for you ------------ REPLY SEPARATOR ------------ I think you just unplugged your trolltenna. Bill, W6WRT |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that persondie?
R. Scott wrote:
------------ REPLY SEPARATOR ------------ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ TROLL-O-METER Bill, W6WRT There I fixed it for you PLONK! There, I fixed it for me. tom K0TAR |
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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that persondie?
Dave wrote:
C'mon Cecil, you've been licensed as long as I have. I Know you Know CW. Does that mean we're virtually obsolete? My favorite mode is CW and it's a fun mode but it is never going to save the world. -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
Dirk wrote: Ham's care more about operating appliances than knowing how to save a lives. :-( It all depends on the person requesting help. Some people, I would probably just let drown... Like clowns that troll antenna newsgroups with silly crap about CW. I bet I could save a lot more lives per minute using CW than you could. Wanna race? If you insist.. At that price I can't resist... MK |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:47:18 GMT, Cecil Moore
wrote: If CW had not existed at the time, how would things have turned out differently? If the present GPS-based system had existed at the time, how would things have turned out? Since The radio operator of the Titanic knew exactly where they were, GPS would have made absolutely no difference. If radio hadn't existed, everyone aboard would have died. |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that persondie?
Al Klein wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote: If CW had not existed at the time, how would things have turned out differently? If the present GPS-based system had existed at the time, how would things have turned out? Since The radio operator of the Titanic knew exactly where they were, GPS would have made absolutely no difference. If radio hadn't existed, everyone aboard would have died. I'm talking about the emergency GPS-based system now in operation. Other ships are automatically notified of emergencies and given headings for reaching the emergency location. If the Titanic and California had been so equipped, the California could probably have gotten there before the Titanic sank. The GPS-based emergency system doesn't go to sleep like the California's CW operator did. I believe the California also ignored a flare from the Titanic thinking it was just part of the maiden voyage celebration. If radio had not existed, the next passing ship would have rescued any survivors. That's the way it was for centuries before the invention of radio. There were often survivors in lifeboats waiting to be picked up in the shipping lanes. Well-equipped lifeboats could survive for weeks in calm waters as did the ejected sailors of "Bounty" fame. -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:37:48 -0400, Al Klein
wrote: On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:47:18 GMT, Cecil Moore wrote: If CW had not existed at the time, how would things have turned out differently? If the present GPS-based system had existed at the time, how would things have turned out? Since The radio operator of the Titanic knew exactly where they were, GPS would have made absolutely no difference. If radio hadn't existed, everyone aboard would have died. try onstar.... superior to IMC ! -- 73 for now Buck N4PGW |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
"Buck" wrote in message
... On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:37:48 -0400, Al Klein wrote: On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:47:18 GMT, Cecil Moore wrote: If CW had not existed at the time, how would things have turned out differently? If the present GPS-based system had existed at the time, how would things have turned out? Since The radio operator of the Titanic knew exactly where they were, GPS would have made absolutely no difference. If radio hadn't existed, everyone aboard would have died. try onstar.... superior to IMC ! -- 73 for now Buck N4PGW I am not so sure about that. My first and only experience with Onstar - was not a very good impression. The "phone system" didn't dial out for crap - by the time you got it to accept the "right" number, you could be dead. Three people in the vehicle called out the number to the sytem a minimum of 5 times each before one of us finally got it to dial. I'm not sure how the other part (emergency locator and response) would have worked as it was never tried. Maybe it works ok in some areas and not others, like cell phones, I don't know - I'm not "that" familiar with it, but that was my experience, limited as it was. I know others seem to have good reports. Code - has had it's place in history - be it with the Titanic however it helped - to maybe others stranded. We don't know about any (or many) "military" use(s) where it may have helped out, we don't always hear about those things. Is CODE the "saviour" of the world? NO. Each mode or language if you choose to call it that - has it's own heroic moment at some point. Even Smoke Signals (if truly used/existed) probably had SOME helpful value. In a sense, smoke signals STILL exist. They use them at the Vatican to signify certain events - more notibly the death of a Pope. Simply put - you use what you have available at the moment - be it smoke signals, sun light off a mirror, code, fax, voice, drums, whatever. Anything is better than nothing in time of need. Seriously, I don't understand the argument over Code. Times change, things change. We could argue the use of the smoke at the Vatican when a PA system would do the same job. With each advance in technology, something goes off the shelf and tossed aside or if kept on the shelf, gets serious dust collections due to little if any use. Electricity replaced candles and lanterns for the most part - though not completely. The Telephone didn't automatically discontinue all other forms of communication - ie, code. The fax and e-mail have not yet altogether replaced "mail" but some day it may. We as a whole can choose to keep something by "using" it or losing it by NOT using it. Things just don't disappear overnight. IF ya like code - USE IT. IF ya don't, then don't worry about it. "IF" you need it to get a license - 5 wpm is not that hard. You won't get it by osmosis. It takes some determination. Just like studying the book. Nothing in life is worth much if just handed to you. There are myriads of things we "must" learn in life which may never be used again - it goes with the territory of life and getting through it. I had to take a course in college once to jump through their hoops. Have I ever used it since? HELL NO. No plan to - either. As to the Titanic operator being a smart ass as someone alluded to in here - maybe he was just losing his cool (very afraid) and trying desperately to get help and felt any other signals were just going to interfere. I don't know - just my own supposition. People do strange things in an emergency and staring death in the eye IS an emergency. Maybe he screwed up, maybe things could have went differently - we'll never know. FATE has a strange way of playing out in all our lives. We can argue all night long over the "would haves and could haves". Nothing will change that course of history. The fact remains, he at least got the word out and SOME people were saved. ALL could have been lost - were he killed prior to the sending of the message AND if no one else aboard knew how to operate the equipment. He was just a "player" in the scheme of things. Had they not hit the iceberg by whatever faulty(?) piloting or directions being given in the first place, the Radio Operator wouldn't even be the issue. We had an incident here when I was but a teen. A "firefighter" had a problem - losing his cool, he got on the radio and said "Clear the airwaves, we have a national emergency". Yes, they had a problem, not of "national" proportion, but he lost his cool and went overboard in what he did with the radio. People - even stone hard natured people - panic given the right scenario. FRIGHT exists in all of us - at some time. Panic is the response. GPS, CODE, ONSTAR - NOTHING (except perhaps radar or sonar) would have told them the icebergs were there. Even if they knew they were in a section of water where there were "known" icebergs that they could have steered away from, - as we know - icebergs can and DO break off - so this one "could" have been such a case. It was a doomed mission just as any that the Astronauts have been killed on - even with all the so-called advanced technology and communications at their disposal. Any number of people could be pointed to or "what ifs" asked. The point is, the end is still the same. People died. In the latter case, NO amount of radio comms modes would have made a difference. Just like the spotting of the iceberg at the last minute - so too was the spotting of the problem in the heat shield and equipment - aboard the shuttle - too little - too late - with or without radio - regardless the mode. Just my 2 cents. Lou/Ka3flu |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that persondie?
clfe wrote:
As to the Titanic operator being a smart ass as someone alluded to in here - maybe he was just losing his cool (very afraid) and trying desperately to get help and felt any other signals were just going to interfere. It was before the Titanic hit the iceberg that the Titanic CW operator told the Californian CW operator to get off the air. He considered his normal Titanic CW message traffic to have priority over any CW traffic that the Californian might need to pass. Turns out the Californian's CW operator was the only person in the world who could have saved the life of the Titanic's CW operator. -- 73, Cecil, http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
Cecil Moore wrote: clfe wrote: As to the Titanic operator being a smart ass as someone alluded to in here - maybe he was just losing his cool (very afraid) and trying desperately to get help and felt any other signals were just going to interfere. It was before the Titanic hit the iceberg that the Titanic CW operator told the Californian CW operator to get off the air. He considered his normal Titanic CW message traffic to have priority over any CW traffic that the Californian might need to pass. Turns out the Californian's CW operator was the only person in the world who could have saved the life of the Titanic's CW operator. Cecil I will conseede the CW usage could have saved lives could still save lives but that was never the question the question of the thread is could you save a life with CW is the chance came I am sure you could. I could I certainly I could by very different means could I save lifes on HF if the need arouse certainly I could do so except I do not listen them nowsince Ican't use them as rotuiene matter which would save more life and property maintining CW testing to keep many of the current tech from aquiring HF experence or droing the test al though us sue of the bands and the abilty to learn in an evionment that assures there is some one out there to talk to someone -- 73, Cecil, http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that persondie?
clfe wrote:
"Buck" wrote in message ... On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:37:48 -0400, Al Klein wrote: On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:47:18 GMT, Cecil Moore wrote: If CW had not existed at the time, how would things have turned out differently? If the present GPS-based system had existed at the time, how would things have turned out? Since The radio operator of the Titanic knew exactly where they were, GPS would have made absolutely no difference. If radio hadn't existed, everyone aboard would have died. try onstar.... superior to IMC ! -- 73 for now Buck N4PGW I am not so sure about that. My first and only experience with Onstar - was not a very good impression. The "phone system" didn't dial out for crap - by the time you got it to accept the "right" number, you could be dead. Three people in the vehicle called out the number to the sytem a minimum of 5 times each before one of us finally got it to dial. I'm not sure how the other part (emergency locator and response) would have worked as it was never tried. Maybe it works ok in some areas and not others, like cell phones, I don't know - I'm not "that" familiar with it, but that was my experience, limited as it was. I know others seem to have good reports. The first thing to go out in a disaster is the phone system. The cell phone system is not immune to this problem. Code - has had it's place in history - be it with the Titanic however it helped - to maybe others stranded. We don't know about any (or many) "military" use(s) where it may have helped out, we don't always hear about those things. A long time ago a guy I worked with told me that when he was in the Army he was assigned to the artillery. He could not qualify as a forward observer because he could only work 20 wpm and needed to be able to do 30 to qualify as a FO communicator. Is CODE the "saviour" of the world? NO. Each mode or language if you choose to call it that - has it's own heroic moment at some point. Even Smoke Signals (if truly used/existed) probably had SOME helpful value. In a sense, smoke signals STILL exist. They use them at the Vatican to signify certain events - more notibly the death of a Pope. Simply put - you use what you have available at the moment - be it smoke signals, sun light off a mirror, code, fax, voice, drums, whatever. Anything is better than nothing in time of need. Seriously, I don't understand the argument over Code. Times change, things change. We could argue the use of the smoke at the Vatican when a PA system would do the same job. This is definitely tradition not necessity. With each advance in technology, something goes off the shelf and tossed aside or if kept on the shelf, gets serious dust collections due to little if any use. Electricity replaced candles and lanterns for the most part - though not completely. The Telephone didn't automatically discontinue all other forms of communication - ie, code. The fax and e-mail have not yet altogether replaced "mail" but some day it may. We as a whole can choose to keep something by "using" it or losing it by NOT using it. Things just don't disappear overnight. IF ya like code - USE IT. IF ya don't, then don't worry about it. "IF" you need it to get a license - 5 wpm is not that hard. You won't get it by osmosis. It takes some determination. Just like studying the book. Nothing in life is worth much if just handed to you. There are myriads of things we "must" learn in life which may never be used again - it goes with the territory of life and getting through it. I had to take a course in college once to jump through their hoops. Have I ever used it since? HELL NO. No plan to - either. As to the Titanic operator being a smart ass as someone alluded to in here - maybe he was just losing his cool (very afraid) and trying desperately to get help and felt any other signals were just going to interfere. I don't know - just my own supposition. People do strange things in an emergency and staring death in the eye IS an emergency. Maybe he screwed up, maybe things could have went differently - we'll never know. The radio operation on the RMS Titanic was controlled by the Marconie Radio Company. As such the Titanic radio operator was discouraged from communicating with any station controlled by another company. This is called free enterprise. Also the radio was not under the command of Capt. Smith. This was changed after the sinking. They also mandated 24/7 monitoring of the emergency radio frequencies. FATE has a strange way of playing out in all our lives. We can argue all night long over the "would haves and could haves". Nothing will change that course of history. The fact remains, he at least got the word out and SOME people were saved. ALL could have been lost - were he killed prior to the sending of the message AND if no one else aboard knew how to operate the equipment. He was just a "player" in the scheme of things. Had they not hit the iceberg by whatever faulty(?) piloting or directions being given in the first place, the Radio Operator wouldn't even be the issue. We had an incident here when I was but a teen. A "firefighter" had a problem - losing his cool, he got on the radio and said "Clear the airwaves, we have a national emergency". Yes, they had a problem, not of "national" proportion, but he lost his cool and went overboard in what he did with the radio. People - even stone hard natured people - panic given the right scenario. FRIGHT exists in all of us - at some time. Panic is the response. GPS, CODE, ONSTAR - NOTHING (except perhaps radar or sonar) would have told them the icebergs were there. Even if they knew they were in a section of water where there were "known" icebergs that they could have steered away from, - as we know - icebergs can and DO break off - so this one "could" have been such a case. The Canadian Coast Guard and the United States Coast Guard expend a lot of time and money looking for and tracking these icebergs. After the Titanic went down the International Iceberg Patrol was created. It even functioned during the Second World War giving positions report to allied mariners. It was a doomed mission just as any that the Astronauts have been killed on - even with all the so-called advanced technology and communications at their disposal. Any number of people could be pointed to or "what ifs" asked. The point is, the end is still the same. People died. In the latter case, NO amount of radio comms modes would have made a difference. Just like the spotting of the iceberg at the last minute - so too was the spotting of the problem in the heat shield and equipment - aboard the shuttle - too little - too late - with or without radio - regardless the mode. Just my 2 cents. Just my 2 cents also. Dave WD9BDZ Lou/Ka3flu |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that persondie?
Cecil Moore wrote:
clfe wrote: As to the Titanic operator being a smart ass as someone alluded to in here - maybe he was just losing his cool (very afraid) and trying desperately to get help and felt any other signals were just going to interfere. It was before the Titanic hit the iceberg that the Titanic CW operator told the Californian CW operator to get off the air. He considered his normal Titanic CW message traffic to have priority over any CW traffic that the Californian might need to pass. Turns out the Californian's CW operator was the only person in the world who could have saved the life of the Titanic's CW operator. Ship born radio communications were controlled by communications companies completely separate from the ship. The radio operators were not under the command of the ship's captain. In the case of Titanic the Marconi Radio Company controlled the radio. Californian and Carpathia had different company control and there was a definite rivalry between the companies. The Titanic operator was fully justified in telling the Californian operator to close station. This was one of the direct causes of the formation of the international radio treaties we operate under now. Dave WD9BDZ |
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Cecil Moore wrote:
Dave wrote: C'mon Cecil, you've been licensed as long as I have. I Know you Know CW. Does that mean we're virtually obsolete? My favorite mode is CW and it's a fun mode but it is never going to save the world. AGREE!!!!! |
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"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
... clfe wrote: As to the Titanic operator being a smart ass as someone alluded to in here - maybe he was just losing his cool (very afraid) and trying desperately to get help and felt any other signals were just going to interfere. It was before the Titanic hit the iceberg that the Titanic CW operator told the Californian CW operator to get off the air. He considered his normal Titanic CW message traffic to have priority over any CW traffic that the Californian might need to pass. Turns out the Californian's CW operator was the only person in the world who could have saved the life of the Titanic's CW operator. -- 73, Cecil, http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp In that case then - I stand corrected, I was unaware of that. Lou |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
clfe wrote:
"Cecil Moore" wrote in message ... It was before the Titanic hit the iceberg that the Titanic CW operator told the Californian CW operator to get off the air. He considered his normal Titanic CW message traffic to have priority over any CW traffic that the Californian might need to pass. Turns out the Californian's CW operator was the only person in the world who could have saved the life of the Titanic's CW operator. -- 73, Cecil, http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp In that case then - I stand corrected, I was unaware of that. It's totaly untrue. The Californian's radio operator ignored the Titanic's distress signals because the Titanic was a Marconi ship and the Californian was a Telefunken ship. The operators were not allowed to communicate with the competing company's operators under any circumstances under penalty of being put off the ship at first landing, with no hope of getting home or being hired by the other company. I recently blogged about it: http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/2006/06/22/ Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 IL Fax: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ |
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Cecil Moore wrote in
om: Dave wrote: C'mon Cecil, you've been licensed as long as I have. I Know you Know CW. Does that mean we're virtually obsolete? My favorite mode is CW and it's a fun mode but it is never going to save the world. With an attitude like that it probably won't. Better keep a microphone handy. SC |
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Bill Turner wrote in
: ORIGINAL MESSAGE: On 12 Jul 2006 10:24:55 -0700, "an old freind" wrote: if i was at my home station is no they would not die and I am as no code as they come I down right hate the mode and yet y pc and station is quite able to work cw as needed to save a life if it was needed ------------ REPLY SEPARATOR ------------ He apparently hates English too. Bill, W6WRT Imagine that coming toward you 20wpm. I'm begining to think it's good he hates cw. LOL SC |
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Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
It's totaly untrue. The Californian's radio operator ignored the Titanic's distress signals because the Titanic was a Marconi ship and the Californian was a Telefunken ship. If the History Channel got it right, the Californian's CW operator was asleep by the time the Titanic hit the iceberg. -- 73, Cecil, http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp |
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Slow Code wrote:
With an attitude like that it probably won't. Better keep a microphone handy. Actually, what I keep handy is food and water. -- 73, Cecil, http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
"Cecil Moore" wrote in message om... Al Klein wrote: Cecil Moore wrote: If CW had not existed at the time, how would things have turned out differently? If the present GPS-based system had existed at the time, how would things have turned out? Since The radio operator of the Titanic knew exactly where they were, GPS would have made absolutely no difference. If radio hadn't existed, everyone aboard would have died. I'm talking about the emergency GPS-based system now in operation. Other ships are automatically notified of emergencies and given headings for reaching the emergency location. If the Titanic and California had been so equipped, the California could probably have gotten there before the Titanic sank. The GPS-based emergency system doesn't go to sleep like the California's CW operator did. I believe the California also ignored a flare from the Titanic thinking it was just part of the maiden voyage celebration. If radio had not existed, the next passing ship would have rescued any survivors. That's the way it was for centuries before the invention of radio. There were often survivors in lifeboats waiting to be picked up in the shipping lanes. Well-equipped lifeboats could survive for weeks in calm waters as did the ejected sailors of "Bounty" fame. The men put off the Bounty did not survive with ease but only through very hard work and the superb seamanship and leadership of Captain Bligh. Although he was an absolute ass while in command of the Bounty, but his performance was superb during that time. And life boats floating in the shipping lanes could capsize in rough weather or drift out of the shipping lanes. We will never know how many people died at sea in such boats after surviving the loss of the ship. The various technological improvements, including radio, have been important in improving the survival odds. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
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Dirk wrote:
Ham's care more about operating appliances than knowing how to save a lives. :-( troll-o-meter (digital version) 0*****1*****2*****3*****4*****5*****6*****7*****8* ****9***** ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ah ****. we have a troll! |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:06:29 GMT, Cecil Moore
wrote: I'm talking about the emergency GPS-based system now in operation. Other ships are automatically notified of emergencies and given headings for reaching the emergency location. If the Titanic and California had been so equipped, the California could probably have gotten there before the Titanic sank. The GPS-based emergency system doesn't go to sleep like the California's CW operator did. Oh, you mean he didn't hear the automatic annunciator they had in use in those days? Mechanical and clunky, but it worked. The only thing the GPS-based system does is give you an exact location - it doesn't notify anyone of anything. Plain old radio does that, the same as it did back then. If radio had not existed, the next passing ship would have rescued any survivors. That's the way it was for centuries before the invention of radio. The way it usually was in the centuries before radio (just ask the crew of the Nuestra Senora de Atocha) was that when the ship sank the people on her died. (The Atocha's crew were all hardened sailors, yet only 3 crew members - out of 265 people aboard - clung to the wreckage long enough to be rescued.) There were often survivors in lifeboats waiting to be picked up in the shipping lanes. Well-equipped lifeboats could survive for weeks in calm waters as did the ejected sailors of "Bounty" fame. 1) There weren't enough lifeboats in the Titanic. 2) They weren't "equipped". 3) The crew of the bounty were sailors used to pulling oars for hours at a time. The passengers of the Titanic - those who were allowed to get to the lifeboats - were pampered women and children, not used to, or able to, row a heavy wooden lifeboat anywhere. 4) People who are wet and in their night clothes - most of those who made it to the lifeboats - don't survive very long in sub-Arctic climes. But it's nice to reminisce about what happened, even if it never did. |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:00:20 GMT, Cecil Moore
wrote: If the History Channel got it right That would be an historic first. |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:15:26 GMT, Cecil Moore
wrote: Al Klein wrote: The only thing the GPS-based system does is give you an exact location - it doesn't notify anyone of anything. "EPIRB - Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons, or EPIRBs, are used when a ship is in distress, to emit a radio signal marking the ship's location." GPS systems are receivers. Transmitters that use GPS-derived data aren't GPS-based systems, they're transmitter-based systems. No transmitter, no notification. No GPS, notification is a little less accurate, that's all. If radio had not existed, the next passing ship would have rescued any survivors. The way it usually was in the centuries before radio (just ask the crew of the Nuestra Senora de Atocha) was that when the ship sank the people on her died. (The Atocha's crew were all hardened sailors, yet only 3 crew members - out of 265 people aboard - clung to the wreckage long enough to be rescued.) Yes, that's what I said. Passing ships rescue survivors. Or, in this case, ships that were part of the same flotilla (they didn't have to have any luck in being in the area) only managed to rescue about 1% of the survivors. If they had waited for "passing ships", their grandchildren would have been too old for rescue. Most shipwreck survivors who are rescued aren't rescued by ships that just happen to be passing, they're rescued by ships that knew about the wreck and responded. (Before radio, most shipwreck survivors weren't rescued.) |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that persondie?
Al Klein wrote:
Transmitters that use GPS-derived data aren't GPS-based systems, ... Huh???? Can you prove that assertion? :-) Most shipwreck survivors who are rescued aren't rescued by ships that just happen to be passing, they're rescued by ships that knew about the wreck and responded. (Before radio, most shipwreck survivors weren't rescued.) All that is true. If one was away from the shipping lanes, one was SOL or USCWAP. However, if one was in the shipping lanes with a flare, one at least had a chance of being rescued. According to my nephew, one of our ancestors was rescued in such a manner. Presumably, if that had not happened, neither he nor I would exist. -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp |
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 20:38:39 GMT, Cecil Moore
wrote: Al Klein wrote: Transmitters that use GPS-derived data aren't GPS-based systems, ... Huh???? Can you prove that assertion? :-) The notification systems are radio-based. Notification isn't made by GPS. We had radio-based notification systems long before we had the GPS. If one was away from the shipping lanes, one was SOL or USCWAP. However, if one was in the shipping lanes with a flare, one at least had a chance of being rescued. Once flares had been invented. We've been sailing the seas for at least 4,000 years, over 3,500 of them without radios, flares or other means of communications to ships or land installations we couldn't already see. |
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