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Now that I've gotten my RSU cliff I don't have anything I'm looking forward to and its really bad!
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my one grandpa was a little too young for ww2 and spent the tail end of the war as a lifeguard in the navy. he joined the Air Force after and spent 20 years flying cargo all over the world as an enlisted flight engineer, including air dropping an entire library in Alaska and fly weapons in and bodies out in the early part of what became the Vietnam war. His best story was the time he spent attached to the squadron that flew executive transports out of Andrews. He never flew on Air Force One, but everything short of that. So he’s flying one day, and it’s Curtis LeMay, now grandfather has his private pilot license; and for longer trips he’d jump in the pilots seat to give one of the pilots a break. General LeMay decides to pay a visit to the flight crew in flight while my grandfather was sitting in one of the pilots chairs, or at least in a position that an officer would normally be in. I might be miss remembering but something about a jacket saved him from LeMay noticing while he said hi, which was a big deal because he is someone who would of probably ended everyone’s present careers? I might be really butchering the story, all I really remember is something about the jacket saving him from LeMay screwing with him. my other grandfather also served in the Air Force as an enlisted dude, and somehow was attached to an Aussie helo group in Vietnam that marked targets for bombing runs with phosphorus grenades out of old Mash style helicopters. He somehow got a bronze star along the way. his only other anecdotes were that Maine and Thule Greenland were the coldest shitholes on earth and that he hated both of them.
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Jul 1, 2020 04:29
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:I’m 99% sure you can pull service records quite easily old ones can be hard to get; there was a big warehouse fire in 1973 that destroyed about 3/4 of all the records from before WWI to the 60s for the army and air force: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Personnel_Records_Center_fire
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Jul 1, 2020 05:08
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Midjack posted:old ones can be hard to get; there was a big warehouse fire in 1973 that destroyed about 3/4 of all the records from before WWI to the 60s for the army and air force: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Personnel_Records_Center_fire welp that sucks
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Jul 1, 2020 05:10
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Midjack posted:old ones can be hard to get; there was a big warehouse fire in 1973 that destroyed about 3/4 of all the records from before WWI to the 60s for the army and air force: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Personnel_Records_Center_fire The FCC basement flooded in the late 90s and destroyed every paper copy of every radio license they had on file. My original ham license literally does not exist anywhere. They just took it on faith when I checked the box saying that I had passed the 5 words per minute Morse Code test in '93 when I went to upgrade my license in 2006. (I really did)
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Jul 1, 2020 19:25
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Jonny 290 posted:The FCC basement flooded in the late 90s and destroyed every paper copy of every radio license they had on file. My original ham license literally does not exist anywhere. They just took it on faith when I checked the box saying that I had passed the 5 words per minute Morse Code test in '93 when I went to upgrade my license in 2006. My dad was extra but kept his old six character callsign for cred in a post-code world.
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Jul 1, 2020 19:34
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haha. i heard they were dropping the code requirement and i rocketed to the next testing session like four days before the cutoff date, just to say that i got my extra back when there was a Morse requirement. huge dick move. (i still have my original long callsign too. it's awful and i love it lol)
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Jul 1, 2020 22:09
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Jonny 290 posted:haha. i heard they were dropping the code requirement and i rocketed to the next testing session like four days before the cutoff date, just to say that i got my extra back when there was a Morse requirement. huge dick move.
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Jul 1, 2020 22:25
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because morse code is a 'varicode' (more common symbols are shorter), there can be vast differences in how long and complex the morse version of your callsign is. https://fistsna.org/callweight.php my call sign is 80 weight which is pretty close to the theoretical maximum for a 6 character call the shortest and fastest callsign possible in the united states would be either AE5E (.- . ..... .) or AE9E (.- . ----. .) (5 is ..... , 9 is ----. , but a common shorthand for 9 is N, -. , so if you're using the shorthand for 9 it beats 5)
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Jul 1, 2020 22:31
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when i got to operate the WWV special event station i shouted their special temporary call a thousand times and i will never again sign up for something where i have to yell WHISKEY WHISKEY ZERO WHISKEY WHISKEY VICTOR for two hours
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Jul 1, 2020 22:32
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mine is 74 weight, apparently
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Jul 1, 2020 22:40
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Jonny 290 posted:because morse code is a 'varicode' (more common symbols are shorter), there can be vast differences in how long and complex the morse version of your callsign is. ARSE
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Jul 1, 2020 22:59
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Jul 1, 2020 23:00
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Jonny 290 posted:when i got to operate the WWV special event station i shouted their special temporary call a thousand times and i will never again sign up for something where i have to yell WHISKEY WHISKEY ZERO WHISKEY WHISKEY VICTOR for two hours i wonder this too about the all-letter aircraft callsigns in other parts of the world american tail numbers are usually fairly easy to pronounce as they can only have two letters in them out of five digits, and they have to be at the end. e.g. N219YP (initial N doesn't count and is ignored in radio calls as every civil airplane starts with N). many airplanes have only numbers, like N42069. it's also common to shorten to the last three once you're in contact with ATC, so you're just "zero six niner" or "niner yankee papa." but in other countries, no, they use five letters for every registration, no numbers, the first one being a country code. canadian registrations are all things like C-UPEE and C-BASS, in england it's G-AYYY, germany D-ICKS, etc and it would be super annoying having to call that poo poo out. like imagine having to end every transmission with "foxtrot foxtrot foxtrot november foxtrot" in a french accent. drat e: oh and once i was flying around and I heard this guy on the radio, s'cool  (N1 through N99 are reserved for the FAA planes that go around testing navigation beacons and stuff) Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Jul 1, 2020 |
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Jul 1, 2020 23:14
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Jonny 290 posted:when i got to operate the WWV special event station i shouted their special temporary call a thousand times and i will never again sign up for something where i have to yell WHISKEY WHISKEY ZERO WHISKEY WHISKEY VICTOR for two hours
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Jul 1, 2020 23:30
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Jonny 290 posted:because morse code is a 'varicode' (more common symbols are shorter), there can be vast differences in how long and complex the morse version of your callsign is.
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Jul 1, 2020 23:32
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Sagebrush posted:canadian registrations are all things like C-UPEE and C-BASS,
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Jul 1, 2020 23:34
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morse code sucks because it's not a prefix code, so if i give you -..-.-.---.---....-. you have no idea what that means. you need the spaces to know where letters begin and end
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Jul 1, 2020 23:36
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actually I don't think that either of those canadian registrations are real unfortunately. there are only like 40,000 airplanes registered in canada so a lot of the really good ones aren't taken yet. this one is real though  DELETE CASCADE posted:morse code sucks because it's not a prefix code, so if i give you -..-.-.---.---....-. you have no idea what that means. you need the spaces to know where letters begin and end actual transmitted morse code has a blank interval of 3 units (or one dash, where one dot is one unit) between letters and 7 units between words. the issue you have found is only a problem when you transcribe it without indicating these special intervals.
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Jul 1, 2020 23:38
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wasn't morse code mostly retired a few years ago?
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Jul 1, 2020 23:46
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Sagebrush posted:actually I don't think that either of those canadian registrations are real unfortunately. there are only like 40,000 airplanes registered in canada so a lot of the really good ones aren't taken yet.  this creates the c-bass initiative
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Jul 1, 2020 23:52
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Sagebrush posted:actually I don't think that either of those canadian registrations are real unfortunately. there are only like 40,000 airplanes registered in canada so a lot of the really good ones aren't taken yet. drat that is a nice looking plane
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Jul 1, 2020 23:58
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Broken Machine posted:wasn't morse code mostly retired a few years ago? yeah now it’s lewis code
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Jul 1, 2020 23:59
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Broken Machine posted:wasn't morse code mostly retired a few years ago? As I learned from a jonny stream, there's still geezers beep booping away out there
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Jul 2, 2020 00:00
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one of my favorite arguments to get into is if Morse Code is a digital mode or not. It is, it's a self clocking mode. base timing is the 'dit' a 'dah' is 3 dits spacing between dits or dahs inside a letter is 1 dit spacing between letters is 3 dits and spacing between words is 7 dits the 3:1 dah-dit ratio is the 'weight' and sometimes it varies widely. Semiautomatic keys, or 'bugs' were developed to alleviate RSI for professional code senders.  push the paddle one way and a spring steel, pendulum weighted arm knocks against an electrical contact closure to make dits. push it the other way and you make the dahs manually. This usually results in a weight of around 5:1 and means that anybody using a bug is instantly recognizable on the air. Morse is no longer an essential part of radio as we have computers that can send and receive data in way shittier situations than code can get through. However it's still an enjoyable mode and there are tons of "CW" operators on the air. i've been known to slap some paddles myself from time to time. * CW: "continuous wave" - a throwback from like 1913 or whatever when we moved to a continuous oscillator that was turned on and off with the key. Previously it was 'damped wave' aka a god drat spark gap.
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Jul 2, 2020 00:13
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President Beep posted:yeah now it’s lewis code BEEP!!!!!!
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Jul 2, 2020 00:15
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here's a neat semiautomatic bug that a small manufacturer makes. Because the position of the weight on the pendulum arm determines the period of the pendulum and thus how fast your dits go, this dude realized that if you just made a 90 degree linkage and built the key sideways that you could have a REALLY long arm, and thus slow it down. The classic vibroplex like i posted in that gif doesn't go much below 23, 25 words a minute, but these wacky ones can get down to like 13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WV6FG2yWww
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Jul 2, 2020 00:16
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Achmed Jones posted:BEEP!!!!!! I don’t get it
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:drat that is a nice looking plane flying boats are really pretty      at least most of the time 
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Jul 2, 2020 00:20
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Looking for good mid-range blades for my merkur razors. same. i have a huge pack of feather platinum blades but for some reason theyre real spotty i keep suspecting a few packs are knockoffs since ive not known them to have such varying quality. it might be my handle is wearing out or thats my excuse for a better handle with some adjustability Agile Vector fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Jul 2, 2020 |
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Jul 2, 2020 00:38
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Sagebrush posted:at least most of the time that thing rules though
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Jul 2, 2020 00:42
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was indiana jones's pilot named "jacques" or "jock"? he had a cool plane
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Jul 2, 2020 00:45
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:I don’t get it inspector morse was a British detective show. it went off the air and his partner, lewis, got a show. then that went off the air and now they're doing morse again but as a prequel thing so it's morse as a young man instead of a cranky 50 year old
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Jul 2, 2020 01:02
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this is the poo poo
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Jul 2, 2020 01:12
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Achmed Jones posted:inspector morse was a British detective show. it went off the air and his partner, lewis, got a show. then that went off the air and now they're doing morse again but as a prequel thing so it's morse as a young man instead of a cranky 50 year old
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Jul 2, 2020 01:47
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my friend just had their lease terminated because the landlord wants to renovate their house so he can rent it to professors at the local universities hes in for some bad news soon
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Jul 2, 2020 04:07
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https://twitter.com/RyanDeto/status/1278487680054169602
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Jul 2, 2020 04:35
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that woman has a baby with her.
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Jul 2, 2020 04:42
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https://twitter.com/TheBigChicken7/status/1278492364089315328
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not even a week later https://www.cleveland.com/coronavirus/2020/06/ohio-health-officials-trace-coronavirus-outbreak-to-put-in-bay.html
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