Re: [IRCA] SOS in Morse code on the radio today

["Tim Hall" <timhall1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting - It's kind of surprising that their advertising department got
the Morse code right.  That's pretty good attention to detail for marketing
folks :)

This reminds me of something that happened a few years ago.  There was a DX
test on the east coast or maybe the midwest, on a fairly crowded channel.  A
station much closer to me on the same channel ran a commercial including
some Morse code which just happened to include 3 out of the 4 letters (in
sequence) from the testing station's call letters.  I thought we might see
a bunch of false reports from the west coast the next morning, but happily
we didn't (it would have been a pretty honest mistake).  I can't remember
which DX test this was now...

73, Tim

On 7/31/07, Patrick Griffith, N0NNK / WPE9HVW <AM-DXer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I was surprised when the broadcast I was listening to today was
> interrupted by several rounds of SOS in Morse code. Turned out to be the
> beginning of an e-Surance spot. It starts out with about 10 seconds of
> code and no other audio. At the end they also mentioned a web site with
> SOS in the address. I can imagine the surprise of someone DXing late at
> night on a noisy channel and hearing just the SOS punch through the
> background noise!
>
> Patrick Griffith, Westminster CO
> Broadcast Technician
> NRC Broadcasting - Denver
> http://community.webtv.net/N0NNK/
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