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You weren't completely wrong. The signal was originally just associated with a distress signal, but the letters SOS were quickly adopted to describe it. You could also write the same signal with other letter combinations, for example VTB or IJS. With normal Morse transmissions, you leave a space between each letter, but SOS is transmitted as a continuous sequence.
Did you know SOS wasn't the first distress signal used in radio transmissions? The original one was CQD, though it wasn't adopted for international use and fell out of fashion after SOS was invented. When the Titanic sank, they actually alternated between the two when calling for help.
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You weren't completely wrong. The signal was originally just associated with a distress signal, but the letters SOS were quickly adopted to describe it. You could also write the same signal with other letter combinations, for example VTB or IJS. With normal Morse transmissions, you leave a space between each letter, but SOS is transmitted as a continuous sequence.
Did you know SOS wasn't the first distress signal used in radio transmissions? The original one was CQD, though it wasn't adopted for international use and fell out of fashion after SOS was invented. When the Titanic sank, they actually alternated between the two when calling for help.