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To: Verbosus

What does CQD stand for?

Near as I can figure out, there was no standard call for commercial shipping at the time.

CQD was a military code term for Close Quarters Distress. That is what they used ...

Most people think that SOS stands for Save Our Ship, but that is not true - in Morse Code, it was three dots - three dashes - then three dots.

This was the fastest method of signalling distress in Morse Code and they settled on it ...

56 posted on 04/13/2012 3:55:58 PM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)

To: Lmo56

Near as I can figure out, there was no standard call for commercial shipping at the time.

CQD was a military code term for Close Quarters Distress. That is what they used...

By the way, the call sign for the Marconi Wireless on RMS Titanic was:

By the way, that's the IATA code for Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport in Montgomery County, Ohio.

58 posted on 04/13/2012 5:08:40 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)

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