![]() ![]() "When they struck the iceberg, had they not had this facility on board, their distress messages that went out might have reached nearby ships but they would have never reached places where they did reach," said Bill Hayes, a lifelong broadcaster, director of engineering and technology for Iowa Public Television and vice president of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society. Transmission went farther without atmospheric distortions from their location in the middle of the North Atlantic. ![]() ![]() And on that fateful night, the skies were clear. The 5,000-watt Marconi system operated with a fairly low frequency, which allowed its signal to travel long distances, especially at night. Phillips angrily signaled back, "Shut up!" The incoming message was jamming him, and he was busy. Passenger communications were so pressing that Phillips got irritated when the radio operator from the Californian, a ship nearby, interrupted one of his transmissions with a now infamous courtesy message saying that they’d encountered ice. Instead, Marconi radio operators Jack Phillips and Harold Bride spent a great deal of time transmitting and receiving telegrams for the passengers.Ĭonstant communication from high-profile passengers kept the operators busy, said Charles Cushing, the head of a naval architecture firm in New York who teaches at the U.N.'s World Maritime University and recently attended the International Marine Forensics Symposium in Washington, D.C. Not very sophisticated by today's standards, but wireless radio communication in those days was as popular as the Internet today. Emery is a physical oceanographer, an aerospace engineering sciences professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and an IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society member. "These were sort of souped-up spark machines," Bill Emery said, describing the Titanic's transmitter. ![]()
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