Titanic’s Lost Radio Room Found: What’s Still Inside?

[SWAMPER]

Click here > https://youtu.be/70oVvYqfZFY?si=bwY0XWcJpFJp6gd0

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[KC8CKZ]

Nice video..

[Michael M]

Recovery of the Marconi transceiver on the Titanic is a controversial topic, with some very passionate on both sides of the discussion.

There's a bit of false information out there today, with one that claims had the radio operators not waited until 45 minutes after the collision to send the SOS call, more lives would have been saved. This is nonsense! The SOS distress signal, while having been adopted just a few years before, was not yet widely used. Most were still using the CQD distress signal, which the operators initially, and appropriately, used.

If you'd like to see what the Marconi machine looked like in its day, David WD4LLQ and Jim KZ4FB built an amazing replica that was used in the recent traveling Titanic exhibit, hosted at the Cox Science Center. Pictures and some of that story can be found here - viewtopic.php?p=1010

It may be approaching time to do another presentation on this, showcasing the amazing work they did. I have to say that the backdrop banner that Bruce KB4SWP created is absolutely superb, and assists in presenting the display.

[RichieC1]

A while back, I had seen a photo on Facebook of what is left of the Titanic radio room under water. There is not much left and covered in dirt and underwater plant life so it's hard to make out. If I can find it I will post it.

[RichieC1]

This an interesting YT video about the Titanic’s radio room. Click the link to watch it.

[Michael M]

This time I watched the video. Kathy Schott is incorrect, but I don't fault her. The average person, even the average ham, is not expected to know that the Titanic did not send the first maritime SOS signal, and she was just repeating what this documentary presented. On the other hand, the author of this documentary is expected to know that

If someone is going to author a documentary, they should make at least an elementary effort of research, and hopefully much more than that. A threshold of far less would quickly reveal the Titanic was not the first ship to send a maritime SOS signal.

It has impressive video of the inside of the radio room, but like everything out there, be careful of what you read and what people say as it's been my anecdotal experience that the inaccuracy of information is higher today than it's ever been before, and it seems to me to be accelerating. I would attribute that to social media as it is a cesspool of misinformation.

Note: Here's a continuing example. On that Facebook page another user emphatically states: "SOS didn't exist The sent CQD! Look it up!"

Perhaps he should look it up because that's incorrect.The SOS signal certainly did exist in 1912, and was adapted a few years prior.

Interestingly, Kathy corrects him, accurately stating: “The SOS distress signal was first used in 1909, specifically on June 10th, by the steamship Slavonia…” After writing that, I would think she would understand what she originally wrote was incorrect... unless she doesn't understand that 1909 predates 1912.