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  • Titanic Text Messages - A Streaming Log of Distress Transmissions

    This is interesting. You can hear the morse code, and see the characters on the screen.

    the CQD starts at about the 1:40 mark.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxRN2nP_9dA
    Skilled programmers aren't cheap. Cheap programmers aren't skilled.

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    It's heartbreaking.


    "CQD THIS IS TITANIC"
    "CQD THIS IS--"

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    • #3
      Quoth Arcus View Post
      It's heartbreaking.


      "CQD THIS IS TITANIC"
      "CQD THIS IS--"
      It truly is. Even the CQD in succession toward the beginning. A message stops right in the middle of being sent, then several CQD calls go out in succession.

      Think about how it would have been if they didn't have a form of "shorthand".

      CQD DE MGY

      is much easier, and much faster to tap out than

      CQD THIS IS TITANIC

      It's This:

      -.-. --.- -.. / -.. . / -- --. -.--

      vs this:

      -.-. --.- -.. / - .... .. ... / .. ... / - .. - .- -. .. -.-.

      And apparently, those Marconi operators were rather fast at it.
      Skilled programmers aren't cheap. Cheap programmers aren't skilled.

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