Yeah it's ok, let the hillhairy voters bend history to fit their fake agenda,
you know something? I have learned a new acronym in these forums in the last
week and that is "NFB" talk about NFB with a bunch of perfect NCL's..ha! Mr.
Negative? Yeah...
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> On Apr 27, 2017, at 17:46, Mark Bitterlich <markbitterlich@embarqmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> "I'm sure if the Titanic radio op had voice capability he would have
> used it first. Of course in the Titanic case it wouldn't have mattered
> since the only ship listening was too far away. " Bill W6WRT
>
> The above is a typical "Bill W6WRT" response. Biased, made to believe he is
> always correct, and belittling of the person who disagreed with him. Worse
> it does disservice to the hero's of the day who used Morse Code to save over
> half of the crew of this famous ship.
>
> Actually numerous ships and shore stations heard the Titanic. Not just "the
> only ship listening" as W6WRT would have you believe, which is just so much
> misinformation.
>
> "Come at once. We have struck a berg. It's a CQD, old man," the Titanic
> called to another ship, the Carpathia.
> "We have struck an iceberg and sinking by the head," she told a German ship,
> the Frankfurt.
>
> "In response her sister ship, the Olympic called back: "Am lighting up all
> boilers as fast as we can."
>
> "there was "never a tremor" in the Morse tapped out by Jack Phillips."
>
> "I will never live to forget the work of Phillips during the last awful 15
> minutes," said Bride.
>
> "I suddenly felt a great reverence to see him standing there sticking to his
> work while everybody else was raging about."
>
>
>
>
>
> To repeat: "Bill Turner" <dezrat@outlook.com> said: "Relying on CW will get
> people killed."
>
>
>
> No, I don't think so Bill. History has shown overwise. But you can ignore
> history if you'd like.
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