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Happy 100th birthday, SOS!

There was some early success for the new system a year later when the Cunard liner the SS Slavonia was stricken off the Azores. She sent out an SOS and not a single life was lost.

Even so, not everybody was convinced instantly, and it took the tragedy of the Titanic to reveal just how vital a universal system was. After the collision in April 1912, the ship

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I'm happy to say that I was able to read Dai's message without looking anything up. Though I couldn't get every letter, I had enough to figure out the rest.

I always use the audio to ID navaids when flying IFR and have gradually learned much of the code.

John

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