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Ka5ysy
| | Posted on Saturday, May 06, 2006 - 10:49 pm: | 
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Jeeze.... I go off to Disney World for a week and scuba dive in the Living Sea aquarium to get the Uly's out of my head, and I come back to Morse code! Arrrrrgggggggg!!!
The Navy and Coast Guard retired Morse several years ago, however I am told that the Army re-discovered that Morse works in the desert and other places with simple gear where satellite stuff is unavailable or otherwise useless, and is being taught again.
Seems like us Ham geeks had that figured out long ago. |
Bigdaddy
| | Posted on Sunday, May 07, 2006 - 09:52 am: |
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The USN still actively teaches the art of collection 
Does wonders in the sandbox over AM -- receive only -- and can cover huge amounts of land-mass. Very interesting topic indeed. Look for Jim's post about his 2M (jlnance.) A great post.
G2 |
Jackbequick
| | Posted on Sunday, May 07, 2006 - 02:00 pm: |
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Biddaddy,
You got it! I like the concept of keeping your head up, and eyes and and ears open.
As far as I'm concerned cryptology played a big part in our winning the Cold War. And I thoroughly enjoyed my participation in it! A lot of neat things in a lot of neat places and working with a lot of neat people.
Unfortunately, the U.S. always seems to lose the peace if they win the war!
Jack |
Jlnance
| | Posted on Sunday, May 07, 2006 - 02:45 pm: |
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Thanks Greg, I'm glad you enjoyed it. It was met with thundering silence over in the thread it's posted in.
Cryptology is fascinating from both a historical and technical perspective. At least I think so. It sure played a big part in WWII. |
Bigdaddy
| | Posted on Sunday, May 07, 2006 - 07:41 pm: |
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Jack, There's still a few folks in boots, of all flavors, that can hack dits -- don't believe the hype Once that first airblast takes out everything on this rock that's based in the digital world the very first propagated wave form will be AM and the sender will be hacking dits -- that's not just some crazy theory I dreamed up in my little mind either.
Jim,
Love to read those kind of reports,,,,and go look at my old Heath Kit unit(s) and remember. Have you been to a recent HAM fest? Man,,,nobody under 40 in attendance.
Cryptology just totally fascinates me and I can spend hours *playing* around. I was very fortunate to be selected for a 20 month training program in the Laurel MD area. It was a very trying and exhaustive deal (I went to grad school many years later and found that it, grad school, was easier) but it gave me great satisfaction to complete it.
OK, Jack, I'm going to tell you about my first cryptologic exploit I was a young weed and I caught a bunch of PT out of a eastern region,,,,,spent 4 straight days *busting* Sgt. Peppper's Lonely Heart Club Band by The Beatles,,,,I was such a weed. I gave the next weed Yellow Submarine,,,,both true stories.
G2 |
Jackbequick
| | Posted on Sunday, May 07, 2006 - 08:26 pm: |
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G2,
Funny story! Makes me think of all the mean tricks we used to play on the new guys.
I was 23 years old and already had a wife and one kid when I showed up for my first duty station. Not too gullible.
Jack |
Bigdaddy
| | Posted on Sunday, May 07, 2006 - 09:27 pm: |
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Getting DF on a target gone bad? Send the weed down to maintenance to get a box of LOBs.
(maint sup at the time was a a grumpy old Navy CTT senior chief and he'd give you a box too.)
G2 |
Jackbequick
| | Posted on Monday, May 08, 2006 - 08:16 am: |
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Go down to the Gonio Room and get me some relative bearing grease...
Go to the Teletype Shop and get me a box of carriage returns...
Go down to the Comm Center and pick up the Cannon Report...
On Adak and Shemya we sent them outside to watch for overflights by Russian aircraft. We told them to watch for a "Bee One Are Dee" or a "Gee You Eleven" (B1RD or GU11).
The rolls of multi ply teletype paper with the carbon paper in wrong was a good one. We'd let them use the parking lot in good weather, other wise the central passage way that ran all around the DF spaces worked good.
When TAD to ships we spooks had our own special jokes and then could also use the good stuff from the ship's company like sea bats and funnel races.
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Dave
| | Posted on Monday, May 08, 2006 - 07:48 pm: |
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Oh hell... this has been Hijacked to an Mil intel/secure comm/CT/spook thread. The scruffies miss ya on Shemya.
There was a time when I was sent to 5 work centers by my Sgt looking for 50ft of "flight line"
DAve |
Teeps
| | Posted on Monday, May 08, 2006 - 07:54 pm: |
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Yep, the Ulys' I passed by at several dealer spoke to me too. But the dealers were unable to make my deal. Sooooo, I bought the one for $8500 in NV. It was worth the 18 hour round trip drive last Friday to fetch it home...
See you at the Rock Store.
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Crusty
| | Posted on Monday, May 08, 2006 - 08:32 pm: |
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Yeah, those sexy orange Ulys have a very seductive way of talking to you. Now I've got one in the garage, and all she does is ask me to take her for a ride. |
Ka5ysy
| | Posted on Sunday, May 14, 2006 - 12:20 am: |
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So today (Saturday morning) I get a call from a friend who is coming over to the HD place to do a first service on a Road King and he wants to meet up for breakfast while the bike in in the shop. I get to the dealership and walk in the front door and am assaulted by both the Orange one and the Black one looking at me and hollering. Now they are ganging up on me double-team. Arrrrgggggggggggggg! Yikes!!!
Dave....stop it !!!! |
Crusty
| | Posted on Sunday, May 14, 2006 - 07:27 am: |
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You know; maybe if you took one out for a Demo ride, they'd quiet down. I'd say try an orange one, since it was talking to you the loudest. Make sure it's a long test ride, with some good turns and empty roads, so the bike will know you mean business. When you get back, they'll be saying something totally different from, "Look at me!".
There is a solution... |
Ka5ysy
| | Posted on Sunday, May 14, 2006 - 10:06 am: |
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Crusty, about 29 years ago I met my future wife at my sisters wedding. The feeling that hit me then is dangerously close to this situation. The last time it happened I ended up married ! I strongly suspect that a ride will cause another marriage! Yikes !!! The interesting thing is that my wife is highly amused at this situation, and on top of it, thinks that the Blast is "cute". In female lingo, "cute" costs money! See the problem? |
Crusty
| | Posted on Sunday, May 14, 2006 - 01:53 pm: |
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My wife has had two Blasts, one of which is going to our older daughter as soon as she completes the MSF course; and she(my wife) presently rides a Moto Guzzi Breva. When I decided that I wanted a Uly, she came up with a feasible way that we could afford to buy one.
Used Blasts in mint condition can be had for very reasonable prices.
The only feeling better than having your wife riding behind you on your bike is having her riding beside you on her bike.
I don't see any problem. |
Pigseye
| | Posted on Monday, May 15, 2006 - 06:50 pm: |
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Funny thread...it reminds me of when I was told many, many moons ago to stand on the yellow line behind a bunch of C-130s spooling up. "Hey boot...our vehicles are filthy...we need to wash our vehicles...wait for the truck with the blinking 'Follow Me' sign...he'll give you some prop wash...works really well on blue trucks." |
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