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Correction... that's "9 -dash- 1 -dash- 1." Robesin says so.

then it MUST be worng BB you should know that by now

It's come full circle. ;^)

Har! :-) The robeswine spawned the worm ouroborous! :-)

What is that?

It is the mythical long worm that keeps eating his own tail. :-)

May not be spelled exactly right...I don't speak Wormish.

If Klein wants to post about seeing-eye cats and bees in the
"Code Reader Recommendation" thread, I can describe
worms. :-)

Dave Oldridge wrote:
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Dave Oldridge wrote:
Slow Code wrote in news:SPYSg.4010$o71.3724
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" wrote in
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Please, don't all jump in at once with all the unproven
bragging and dozens of local weekly newspaper clippings.

Let's hear it for the mode that saved the Titanic survivors
in 1912...

Don't know about whether it saved any lives or not, but I once took a
very important NOTAM (Notice to Airman) on CW from a guy in the
Aleutians in the days following the 1964 quake and put it on the
proper teletype circuits for him.

His airport's altitude was changing so that charts and other info
were inaccurate.

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PADK?

I don't remember now. Those were interesting days. And that kind of
emergency, while it can still happen, would be mitigated today by the
fact of satellite telephones, GPS and so forth that don't depend on local
power or microwave comms. Indeed, cell phones would probably have held
up in most areas if the towers were halfway decently designed and
powered....

BLASPHEMY!!!

CW on 80M still rules during EMCOMMS!

;^)

It was all the microwave dishes on towers that moved a tad that made it a
real communications emergency.

Gyro/Gimbal mounted dishes?

If I were to have to deal with one like
that today, I'd probably vote for using some digital mode, such as PSK31
or Olivia to move the traffic. But all we had back then was 850 shift
RTTY and not very much of that. It was another two years before I got
mine going (170 shift by then already!).

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I think RTTY is cool, but I won't force a RTTY practical exam on anyone.

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From: on Fri, Sep 29 2006 9:00 pm

Correction... that's "9 -dash- 1 -dash- 1." Robesin says so.

then it MUST be worng BB you should know that by now

It's come full circle. ;^)

Har! :-) The robeswine spawned the worm ouroborous! :-)

What is that?

It is the mythical long worm that keeps eating his own tail. :-)

May not be spelled exactly right...I don't speak Wormish.

If Klein wants to post about seeing-eye cats and bees in the
"Code Reader Recommendation" thread, I can describe
worms. :-)



I never expected to find a worm in the bottom of a tequila bottle. I
expected to find Robeswine there.

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Slow Code wrote in news:SPYSg.4010$o71.3724
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" wrote in
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Please, don't all jump in at once with all the unproven
bragging and dozens of local weekly newspaper clippings.

Let's hear it for the mode that saved the Titanic survivors
in 1912...

Don't know about whether it saved any lives or not, but I once took
a
very important NOTAM (Notice to Airman) on CW from a guy in the
Aleutians in the days following the 1964 quake and put it on the
proper teletype circuits for him.

His airport's altitude was changing so that charts and other info
were
inaccurate.
on Hand bam?
http://kb9rqz.blogspot.com/

Yep...on 80m. It was the only communications he had at the time.


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I've been thinking about this. I've taken classes in land surveying
and used to shoot levels at the COE. Other than the earth shaking, how
did he determine what the correct elevation was?

He didn't say....but at three feet per hour with the ocean nearby it
wouldn't be that hard to tell. And that was the point of his notice. He
COULDN'T determine it. But he knew the published value was wrong, which
also meant that all he could give arriving aircraft was a guess.


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Dave Oldridge wrote:
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Dave Oldridge wrote:
Slow Code wrote in news:SPYSg.4010$o71.3724
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" wrote in
oups.com:

Please, don't all jump in at once with all the unproven
bragging and dozens of local weekly newspaper clippings.

Let's hear it for the mode that saved the Titanic survivors
in 1912...

Don't know about whether it saved any lives or not, but I once
took a very important NOTAM (Notice to Airman) on CW from a guy in
the Aleutians in the days following the 1964 quake and put it on
the proper teletype circuits for him.

His airport's altitude was changing so that charts and other info
were inaccurate.

Dave, that sounds very suspicious considering my ground school
instructor's 1962 display of a then-old Santa Barbara, CA,
half-hour TTY Wx report (then required by Commerce Dept.).
SBA (ID of Santa Barbara), like all other weather stations at
airports, were required to post their local Wx and airport
conditions every half hour. SBA is on the Pacific coast and
subject to rapid variations of weather. If weather changes more
rapidly than that, weather stations were required to post extra
in-between-scheduled-times reports.

One day, after having fog entering and leaving SBA often, the
operator of the TTY sent: "THE FOG SHE COMES IN THE FOG
SHE GOES OUT." :-)

The ground school class at VNY was presented with a
glassine-protected TTY copy of the Wx message that must
have been old at that time (the cheap TTY paper was
already turning yellow). Got a good laugh from the class.

This was NOT weather. This was seismic.

Other geologic events are passed via WX circuits besides earthquakes.
For example, ash plumes as detected by wx satellie observations.
NOTAMS are in the WX circuits.

True, although I did not put this on a weather circuit, but on the air
traffic control teletype network. We had both, actually.

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