[Amps] Ham Tests, was Price per Watt Conversation

[Thomas Walsh]

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 at embarqmail.com> wrote:
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> "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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> "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.
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> "In response her sister ship, the Olympic called back: "Am lighting up all boilers as fast as we can."
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> "there was "never a tremor" in the Morse tapped out by Jack Phillips."
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> "I will never live to forget the work of Phillips during the last awful 15 minutes," said Bride.
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> "I suddenly felt a great reverence to see him standing there sticking to his work while everybody else was raging about."
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> To repeat:  "Bill Turner" <dezrat at outlook.com> said:  "Relying on CW will get people killed."
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> No, I don't think so Bill.  History has shown overwise.  But you can ignore history if you'd like.