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[Dbowey]

Jock posted:

<< >Marty Wallace wrote:

The really stupid thing is that morse isn't used anywhere at all now

That may well come as a surprise to the users of aeronautical beacons.

.... and to Russian, Ukranian, Indonesian and some other military
users, along with the Israeli Navy, Italian coast stations and
numerous "numbers" stations.
-----

Aeronautical VOR's indentify themselves in International Morse Code, also. On
the aeronautical maps the VOR named Imbler will show the name Imbler plus ..
-- -... (IMB). It pays to check the VOR's ID lest you travel on a radial that
does't go where you want to go.

Don

 

[Franc Zabkar]

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[Jock]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 21:28:17 GMT, John Miller <me@privacy.net> wrote:

Jock wrote:
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 15:30:50 +0100, Trevor Day
Trev@secornwall.removethis.com> wrote:

The ability to intercept third world military comms is also desirable!

Are you absolutely sure that's done by the navy?

http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/6003.htm

Form your own conclusion.

I don't need to. )

--

Jock. Class A+++

 

[Rod Speed]

John Miller <me@privacy.net> wrote in
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Jock wrote
Trevor Day <Trev@secornwall.removethis.com> wrote

The ability to intercept third world military comms is also desirable!

Are you absolutely sure that's done by the navy?

http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/6003.htm

Form your own conclusion.

Says nothing useful about using morse today.

 

[Geoff]

John Miller <me@privacy.net> wrote in news:c6bpd8$7pa$2@n4vu.com:

Marty Wallace wrote:

Learning morse these days is largely an academic exercise, a bit like
learning Latin. Ok, maybe you'll get to talk to the pope one day but the
reality is that every one has moved on.

That will come as a surpise to the NSA.

What, do they converse in Latin?

I have heard about the Navaho code-talkers, and that seemed a good idea,
but spooks speaking Latin - they must be ghosts from Roman times.

YG

 

[John Miller]

Geoff wrote:

John Miller <me@privacy.net> wrote in news:c6bpd8$7pa$2@n4vu.com:
Marty Wallace wrote:

Learning morse these days is largely an academic exercise, a bit like
learning Latin. Ok, maybe you'll get to talk to the pope one day but the
reality is that every one has moved on.

That will come as a surpise to the NSA.

What, do they converse in Latin?

I have heard about the Navaho code-talkers, and that seemed a good idea,
but spooks speaking Latin - they must be ghosts from Roman times.

Yikes -- I mangled that good and proper. I had read Marty's "everyone has
moved on" to refer to Morse, not Latin.

--
John Miller
Email address: domain, n4vu.com; username, jsm

"Quite frankly, I'd rather have a few people hate me deeply than apply
stuff I don't like."
- Linus Torvalds

 

[Russell K]

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[Robert Baer]

Russell K wrote:

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[exray]

Robert Baer wrote:

Russell K wrote:

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That address does not exist.

Not now - after spamming a bunch of newsgroups.

-BM

 

[John Miller]

John Miller wrote:

4) Plug it in

D'oh!

4) Push the button

--
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Email address: domain, n4vu.com; username, jsm

Given its constituency, the only thing I expect to be "open" about [the
Open Software Foundation] is its mouth.
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[John Miller]

Hercules Smackbottom wrote:

I hold an extra class license but I don't have a clue how to cook rice.

It's a lot like being an "appliance operator" on the HF bands...

1) Get a rice cooker
2) Plug it in
3) Add rice and water according to chart
4) Plug it in

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The good life was so elusive
It really got me down
I had to regain some confidence
So I got into camouflage

 

[Pankajkumar Chauhan]

John Miller <me@privacy.net> writes:

Hercules Smackbottom wrote:

I hold an extra class license but I don't have a clue how to cook rice.

It's a lot like being an "appliance operator" on the HF bands...

1) Get a rice cooker
2) Plug it in
3) Add rice and water according to chart

Or twice as much water as rice. (2 cups for one cups, etc.)

4) Plug it in

--
John Miller
Email address: domain, n4vu.com; username, jsm

The good life was so elusive
It really got me down
I had to regain some confidence
So I got into camouflage

--
- Pankaj

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[Jeff]

Where did I say that? What I said was "The signals they (the lifeguard
equivalents) use are called "landing signals". They differ somewhat from
semaphore, but the principal is the same."

In that they are both waving arms/flags etc. about they are the same, but
the meaning of the movements are quite different. Particular arm positions
in semaphore mean different characters, unlike landing signals, where each
"arm position" means a different action should be taken.

I doubt it you will find many lifeguards in the UK who have even
heard of landing signals let alone use them. (particularly the
ones that sit by my local swimming pool and blow whistles). This is
probably because no swimmers and 99% of small boat owners will know
what they mean either.

Jeff

 

[Geoff]

Jeff <jeff@local.host> wrote in news:408E6BE1.B95CB538@local.host:

Where did I say that? What I said was "The signals they (the
lifeguard equivalents) use are called "landing signals". They differ
somewhat from semaphore, but the principal is the same."

In that they are both waving arms/flags etc. about they are the same,
but the meaning of the movements are quite different. Particular arm
positions in semaphore mean different characters, unlike landing
signals, where each "arm position" means a different action should be
taken.



I doubt it you will find many lifeguards in the UK who have even
heard of landing signals let alone use them. (particularly the
ones that sit by my local swimming pool and blow whistles). This is
probably because no swimmers and 99% of small boat owners will know
what they mean either.

I quite agree. I too doubt that Lifeguards in the UK know landing
signals, but I would expect that Coastguards and RNLI folk and possibly
USCG to know them. Yotties who have done the RYA qualifications should
have at least seen landing signals and they are fairly self evident in
their meaning.

YG

 

[Jeff]

Why instead of those light systems whatever they are called ?

Probably because there is a man standing there with flags in
his hand already. Flags (not semaphore) are used to control
the passing of ropes, pipes etc between the 2 ships. You
may ask why not use radio but I guess this can be detected
by an enemy.

Jeff

 

[Rod Speed]

Some brainless fuckwit claiming to be
John Miller <me@privacy.net> wrote in
message news:c6r5p0$dkd$1@n4vu.com...
just the puerile shit thats always pouring from the back of it.

 

[Dbowey]

rod posted:
<<
Some brainless fuckwit claiming to be
John Miller <me@privacy.net> wrote in
message news:c6r5p0$dkd$1@n4vu.com...
just the puerile shit thats always pouring from the back of it.
Did you post this to just admire it and share it with us? I find it completely
witless.

 

[Mark]

I've been working on this old VCR circa 1996 just because the stuff
available now is total junk. I've gone through it and replaced all
belts, mode switch, regreased, and retimed it. I was going to replace
the pinch roller, but the one they sent me didn't fit.

The VCR powers up, takes a tape fine, but when you push play, rew, or ff,

it just shuts down. I've heard power supplies can be a problem on
Panasonics, but would this VCR fit in the time frame of the bad supplies?
I was also thinking a bad tape sensor, but I figured I'd post here first
to see where the experts would go next. Any ideas?

Update: I took the tape out, and put it back in, and it jumped time.
Now the strange part of this is, I got all the marks lined up, and it's got
a new cam gear, cassette carriage, and mode switch. What would make it
jump time? All new parts, you'd think it wouldn't do that.

Thanks
Mark

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[Dave Cole]

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[Dbowey]

zpk posted:

<< i have *NEVER* trotted in a bog. >>

You ARE doing it right now by "contributing" to this thread, such as it is.