20-05-2020, 01:04 PM
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Titanic - Diving to recover Radio!
Courts have ruled that Drones can now be sent down to pick up the Marconi Radio, from the Titanic, and fetch it back so that it can be put in a museum.https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/...n-be-salvaged/
This baffles me!
1) Can you imagine the state of any electrical device, which has been. down there, for over a hundred years. Will there be anything worth looking at?
2) Why can't they, as they do with many other things, just fudge together a copy, or even, find a working model of which there are, probably hundreds still around.
3) This was the Marconi radio used to send out the famous CQD call, but was it heard? (in those days, most ships only listened to radio for 8 hours a day - outside the 8 hours only largish passenger ships would be still "on air" - a fact which led towards the production of the famous Radio AutoAlarm which was around until quite recently)
Note: CQ, in effect, meant "all ships", and the D meant Distress. That was changed to SOS (save our souls) later.
4) Should we let them "Rest in Peace"?
Footnote:
"The Titanic's radio was a state-of-the-art 5.0 kW set with an advanced synchronous, rotary spark discharger. Separate rooms were needed for the transmitter and the receiver because noise from the transmitter was so great that it would otherwise severely interfere with the receiver."
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Hence the name "Sparky"! I have operated one of these!!!
20-05-2020, 02:21 PM
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Re: Titanic - Diving to recover Radio!
Originally Posted by Judd
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Can't see why they are calling it a radio when in fact it was a wireless telegraph machine.
Is this a wind up, Judd?
Oh no, they didn't do wind up "radiation" devices in 1912!
21-05-2020, 10:32 AM
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Re: Titanic - Diving to recover Radio!
Originally Posted by realspeed
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thought they were sending down divers to see if there was any water in the swimming pool
21-05-2020, 11:24 AM
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Re: Titanic - Diving to recover Radio!
Originally Posted by Tiffany
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I agree, they should leave it alone.
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