How Did ‘SOS’ Become The Universal Distress Signal? 

Message in a bottle, Yea! 😃

Yes, as a radio officer I have heard two XXX. One off the coast of Africa, but they were too far away for us to respond. Then another time in the Gulf of Mexico an XXX was for a man overboard (in the middle of the night). You knew he was dead. They did not have personal locators back then. However, all of this is gone, but I still copy W1AW, CW information bulletin several times a week. I love CW.

@@mikemalloy1681 I miss it but it's been many years since I've used it much. Now i just listen to the sound effects they like to use and it seldom is real code but sometimes someone sneaks a message in. One cartoon said "Get frame for Porkeys picture" - one XXX i copied came across so fast I didn't realize it was in German until I was finished copying it. One of my first messages was from GBTT - QE2 - and such an embarassment for me. But I improved and was as good as anyone else at the time. Oh to be young again...good years.

Yep! And then they screwed it all up with GMDSS: Too many links, too many points for failure. The "Old" system? Call SOS, and the closest ship came to your rescue. It was SIMPLE, and it WORKED.

GMDSS, @@w8lvradio...?

GMDSS...?

@@NobleKorhedron Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS)

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Good man just posted something to this effect myself, didn't have all the info to back up it up tho thank you

Poor Tesla got screwed at every turn....😕

Simon didn't say "invented". He said "practical wireless telegraphy was developed by ... Marconi", which is correct.

And by the way you can read the code under Simon's voice with ease too. Try this with another voice. ;)

@@michalpavlat3943 agreed it was very easy to copy and it kind of proves my part 2 voices would have been very hard to understand

It's a "French thing."

??? But SOS doesn’t stand for anything? It’s merely a distress signal. So how can it have an interpretation?

@@cornellkirk8946 It doesn't stand for anything originally but that doesn't keep people from trying to find some meaning.

@@kaltaron1284 ahhh a good old backronym

Might explain why we K as response now in English

Well, even after GMDSS, using SITOR (teleprinter) the shore station operators (especially at WLO) would use CW abbreviations: OM, BTU, R, (many more) etc. Most deck officers had no idea what they were saying. When I was teaching GMDSS I used to explain that to deck officers in my class. None of them had a clue as to what I was saying at first. 73 OM. WD5GYG

That would warrant an SOS though, so no confusion.

Morse users hear themselfs often when propagation is good. That means the signal actualy went around the world.

are you asking people these days to look forward and be proactive???? :D :D : D :D :D : D

Quietest hurricane season in a decade. Not an issue....yet.

@@donsandsii4642 i am a HAM for a reason. 😏

Having been a radio officer, and also taught GMDSS, in my opinion, doing away with the radio officer position and putting a GMDSS station on the bridge was a way of just taking one more person off of a ship, to save money.

I believe Jocko Willink said that becoming proficient in Morse Code (can't remember the words per minute) was one of the requirements to become a Navy Seal back in 1989. I'm betting there are more than a few sailors out there that still know Morse Code even though they haven't used it in 30 years.

Fun fact: The SSS code was covered in this very video so you aren't exactly sharing something people don't know

How would you feel if someone said that about YOU?

No it doesn’t mean save our ship or save our souls…. It means nothing! SOS is simply a distress signal it has become a backronym over time

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zrA1TsvAr9g.html

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I used to teach GMDSS for a number of years and covered this in my classes. Where did you take your GMDSS class???

Well, MAYDAY was implemented during WW2 (maybe earlier), for voice only communications on 2182 MHz (voice frequency). It was really a French word meaning "maider", which means help me. When the Americans were trained in the proper radio procedure, they turned it into MAYDAY, which is much easier to remember. MAYDAY is spoken 3 times, then the name of the ship 3 times, then if you have it, the position. Then shut up. Let someone respond. Do not keep talking.

As of 7-20-22 at least 13.

She was an active Quaker and used the game to warn against unchecked capitalism. Simon has at least one vid he covers her/monopoly but idr which channel.

It was inwented by a little old lady from Leningrad. 😉 🖖😁

Agreed!

Assuming you are referring to the pronunciation of the native American names, nah. Why would a British man in central Europe know exactly how to pronounce the name of native American tribes? In context, it is easily deduced what is being said. I am not familiar with those names as spoken by their people but would guess that, a) likely not the actual name of the people because... colonialism or b) not actually how it is said by those people. Just like many Americans would not say Olathe or the Miami people (which might not be their original name) correctly and instead use the pronunciation of the city in Florida. Each language requires the users to listen to specific sounds and those change from language to language, so a non-native user will not pick-up those nuances and likely say it incorrectly to a native listener, hence accents...

@@ROMAQHICKS That's not an accent difference though. It's a pronunciation difference. If you're running a channel with as high a standard on quality as they have a little phone call to ensure pronunciation doesn't seem like a big task.