[rescue] ham gear

[Dan Duncan]

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Steve Sandau wrote:
> > Wes Will wrote:
> >
> >>>The US Navy dropped it recently.
> >>>
> >>>Guess how you communicate through the hull or a bulkhead in an
> >>>emergency?
> >>>
> >>>I guess you don't.
> >>
> >>
> >>with your palm pilot ??  beam me up, man....
> >>
> >
> >
> > Considering some of the stuff that sailors do with palm pilots now, that
> > may very well be...
>
> I still fail to see what method one would use to transmit data through a
> bulkhead using a Palm Pilot.

Simple, just use it to bang out Morse code on the bulkhead.  This is probably
another one of those situations where the Newton is superior.

Just wait.  In a few years a submarine will ground and no one inside will
know Morse and people will die as a result.  It's inevitable.

-DanD

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