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  2. What SOS Stands For and Where It Came From - AOL

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    Translated to Morse code, SOS looks like this: “. . . – – – . . .” Three dots, three dashes, three dots. At a time when international ships increasingly filled the seas, and Morse code ...

  3. Morse code - Wikipedia

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    Morse code. Morse code is a telecommunications method which encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. [3] [4] Morse code is named after Samuel Morse, one of the early developers of the system adopted for electrical telegraphy .

  4. We now know what SOS really stands for - AOL

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    Translated to Morse code, SOS looks like this: “. . . – – – . . .” Three dots, three dashes, three dots. At a time when international ships increasingly filled the seas, and Morse code ...

  5. What Does 'SOS' Mean? Surprisingly, It's Likely Not ... - AOL

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    SOS is just that—SOS. It was derived from Morse code and recognized as an international standard signaling danger, or the need for aid. Using wireless telegraphy, it would sound like three-dits ...

  6. SOS - Wikipedia

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    SOS is a Morse code distress signal ( ), used internationally, originally established for maritime use.In formal notation SOS is written with an overscore line (SOS), to indicate that the Morse code equivalents for the individual letters of "SOS" are transmitted as an unbroken sequence of three dots / three dashes / three dots, with no spaces between the letters. [1]

  7. Wheatstone system - Wikipedia

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    The Wheatstone system was an automated telegraph system that replaced a human operator with machines capable of sending and recording Morse code at a consistent fast rate. [1] The system included a perforator, which prepared punched paper tape called a Wheatstone slip, a transmitter that read the tape and converted the symbols into dots and ...

  8. Prosigns for Morse code - Wikipedia

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    The procedure signs below are compiled from the official specification for Morse Code, ITU-R M.1677, International Morse Code, [1] while others are defined the International Radio Regulations for Mobile Maritime Service, including ITU-R M.1170, [8] ITU-R M.1172, [4] and the Maritime International Code of Signals, [5] with a few details of their ...

  9. CQD - Wikipedia

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    See media help. CQD (transmitted in Morse code as ) is one of the first distress signals adopted for radio use. On 7 January 1904 the Marconi International Marine Communication Company issued "Circular 57", which specified that, for the company's installations, beginning 1 February 1904 "the call to be given by ships in distress or in any way ...