If your SPOT or ELT doesn't work...

Reminds me of the Gilligan's Island episode where a big phone cable washed a shore and the Professor came up with the idea to hack into it and when it got wet and went on the fritz the phone company would have to come out and fix it, They would find the castaways and rescue them. Unfortunatly Gilligan wrapped up the cable to protect if from the elements and sea so it never went on the fritz. Could have been an electric cable but I remember it as a phone cable.
 
Or in 6 Days and 7 Nights, when Harrison Ford decided to knock out an NDB to get rescued ( plan that didn't work as well, LOL).
 
"I think a lot of people are pretty upset about it," he said. "They were just shocked."
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Not if their power was out, they weren't.... :D
 
Many years ago (before ELTs) a pilot, forced down in a remote area of northern Canada, got attention by using the airplane's battery, some wire torn out of the airplane, and a chunk of metal to make a crude broadband transmitter. He ran a long wire between a couple of trees for an antenna and took the two ends and attached one to the piece of aluminum and the other he attached to one pole of the battery. The other battery pole had another wire whose bare end he scratched across the face of the metal to make sparks. The jagged current flow generated a radio wave off the antenna and ham operators many miles away picked it up, splashed across all the shortwave bands and even into the longwave frequencies where ADF could home in on it. SOS. Dotdotdotdashdashdashdotdotdot. The guy knew some Morse, see? He could send his estimated coordinates.

Now, how many modern men would be capable of that? If their cellphone is dead they don't know what to do.

Dan
 
SOS. Dotdotdotdashdashdashdotdotdot.
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OK here is one of those questions that runs around the mousetrap while droning along for hours and nothing to do or think about.

What happens after the last dot above?
Another dot...... or just head on into the dashes again?!

I know, as if it matters ("Well that's not correct morse syntax, so we aren't going to rescue him")

Here is what I am asking, is it:

...---...pause ...---...pause ...---... etc? (SOS SOS SOS)
or
...---...---...---...---...---...---...---? (SOSOSOSOSOS)
 
Let'sgoflying! said:
OK here is one of those questions that runs around the mousetrap while droning along for hours and nothing to do or think about.

What happens after the last dot above?
Another dot...... or just head on into the dashes again?!

I know, as if it matters ("Well that's not correct morse syntax, so we aren't going to rescue him")

Here is what I am asking, is it:

...---...pause ...---...pause ...---... etc? (SOS SOS SOS) <------
or
...---...---...---...---...---...---...---? (SOSOSOSOSOS)
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Trapper John said:
A pause, like you hear on a NDB or VOR identifieer.
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See the arrow above. And a smaller pause between the letters.
 
id just start playing solitaire. someone would be along soon to tell me which card to play where.
 
tonycondon said:
id just start playing solitaire. someone would be along soon to tell me which card to play where.
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:D
Right. Or build a doorway out of sticks, and a ladder, then set up the ladder in the doorway and climb up on it. In no time at all someone will be there, trying to pass through the doorway. :D
 
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