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"British radio operators used it for years until the sinking of the RMS Titanic which gave SOS worldwide notoriety with its used." This is ungrammatical and I can't figure out what it's supposed to say. What is it? - phma
I once heard that CQD meant Seeking You Danger. Is this true? Miked84 03:05, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Sorry to bother -- I am not familiarized with the Wikipedia system, but the audio file is actually playing 'FQD' instead of 'CQD'. Please confirm. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.81.82.70 ( talk) 07:18, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
The sound clip given for "CQD" is actually playing "FQD". (..-. --.- -..) I don't know if this is because of how it was trimmed or just an oversight. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.122.42.20 ( talk) 00:28, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
"Sécu" is indeed the root of sécurité and secours; however, by itself, the transliteration would be "safety", but would translate (in context) as something like "attention", "alert" or as mentioned, Marconi Co. translates this as "All stations". Although including those two words is useful, stating that 'sécu' is from those words is misleading -- the opposite is more accurate.
Also, "This distress signal soon became known as 'SOS'" -- is meaningless. "SOS" is SOS in Morse code. It wasn't "soon" known as -- it was immediately known as. ~Eric F
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Maybe some mention should be made of times when the incorrect usage of CQD has been made in film, such as the 1996 version of Titanic - with Catherine Zeta-Jones when the captain says 'send CQD - Come Quickly Distress'. Not sure how to fit that into the article at the mo'. VenomousConcept ( talk) 15:19, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
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"British radio operators used it for years until the sinking of the RMS Titanic which gave SOS worldwide notoriety with its used." This is ungrammatical and I can't figure out what it's supposed to say. What is it? - phma
I once heard that CQD meant Seeking You Danger. Is this true? Miked84 03:05, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Sorry to bother -- I am not familiarized with the Wikipedia system, but the audio file is actually playing 'FQD' instead of 'CQD'. Please confirm. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.81.82.70 ( talk) 07:18, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
The sound clip given for "CQD" is actually playing "FQD". (..-. --.- -..) I don't know if this is because of how it was trimmed or just an oversight. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.122.42.20 ( talk) 00:28, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
"Sécu" is indeed the root of sécurité and secours; however, by itself, the transliteration would be "safety", but would translate (in context) as something like "attention", "alert" or as mentioned, Marconi Co. translates this as "All stations". Although including those two words is useful, stating that 'sécu' is from those words is misleading -- the opposite is more accurate.
Also, "This distress signal soon became known as 'SOS'" -- is meaningless. "SOS" is SOS in Morse code. It wasn't "soon" known as -- it was immediately known as. ~Eric F
184.76.225.106 (
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06:38, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Maybe some mention should be made of times when the incorrect usage of CQD has been made in film, such as the 1996 version of Titanic - with Catherine Zeta-Jones when the captain says 'send CQD - Come Quickly Distress'. Not sure how to fit that into the article at the mo'. VenomousConcept ( talk) 15:19, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
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