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Quoted: I'm a Hamateur. You're not broadcasting a signal from an aircraft that's reaching a sub 200' feet down. It's a totally tubular not-happener. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: It just so happens that they have these things called spools. I'm a Hamateur. You're not broadcasting a signal from an aircraft that's reaching a sub 200' feet down. It's a totally tubular not-happener. Wanna bet? Just because the sub is at 200' doesn't mean the antenna is. |
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Quoted: We used to get 10 forms to give to family with 50 blank spaces on them for family grams (name and rank got subtracted out of the 50). The opposite crew screened and uploaded them, and the XO (and/or COB) on the ship screened them before you got it in hand. You were doing well to get 6 or 7 in a 10 week patrol. I got pulled aside one day and asked "who is Missy?" by the XO. Missy was my parent's lab. The message in question included "Missy disappeared 5 days. Came home stinking of diesel and whiskey." She'd fallen into an oil drain pit in someone's barn. Anything sexy would get the name redacted and posted outside crews mess. I remember someone's wife sent something about missing Monday Night Football that was amazingly phrased and got the whole crew worked up. She was a gifted poet. And like I said, we had orders to cover scheduled HF voice transmissions from time to time as part of routine business. When the def-con ratcheted up, those bands would go in availability. "alfa velvita knuckle underwear sphincter spider mucous ringworm. I repeat alfa velvita...." with a paper shredder running in the background, and the signal fading in and out. Picture DX from turbo prop. View Quote Typed a few of those in my day. And made some phone calls about them too. One lady had a cat named Snatch. |
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Depth charges. Use them alone or in series as Morse code.
Boom! BoomBoomBoom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! BoomBoomBoom! Boom! Boom! It can be a little rough on the crew |
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Quoted: VLF. There are Naval Radio Stations, like Jim Creek in Western Washington that transmit globally through the Earth's crust. That message says send up your buoy. The buoy gets a satellite burst transmission, or burst transmission from the E-6 TACAMO aircraft and it's on! View Quote Stay in your lane flyboy! |
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What did all those radio towers they used to have in Maryland, right across from the Naval Academy do?
Local lore was that they had something to do with submarine communications. They took them down several years ago, I guess, but they always make a good landmark when sailing in the Chesapeake back in the 90's. |
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Quoted: What did all those radio towers they used to have in Maryland, right across from the Naval Academy do? Local lore was that they had something to do with submarine communications. They took them down several years ago, I guess, but they always make a good landmark when sailing in the Chesapeake back in the 90's. View Quote NRTF Annapolis did transmit a submarine VLF broadcast. |
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Quoted: Probably not, I don't need to know any classified shit specifically. Do we have one, though, of some sort? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I don't think you will get current information on this subject even from SMEs Probably not, I don't need to know any classified shit specifically. Do we have one, though, of some sort? |
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This is a time when you wish you had 100 attack boats in trail and we still had subroc available.
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I thought this thread was going to be about something else. along the lines of EvilAngel.
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What do Great Britain or France do? Countries with boomers and no E3B.
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Quoted: What do Great Britain or France do? Countries with boomers and no E3B. View Quote The Brits have a letter from the Prime Minister in the safe (seriously) with instructions if they cannot raise London via wireless. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/36824917/trident-what-are-the-letters-of-last-resort |
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Quoted: The Dolphins of the SW American Desert provide the best security... They speak Navajo! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: They use Dolphins that speak Latin. The Dolphins of the SW American Desert provide the best security... They speak Navajo! They were trained at Point Mugu. |
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Quoted: That is my lane. Jim Creek was one of the dozen facilities I was responsible for. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Stay in yout lane flyboy! That is my lane. Jim Creek was one of the dozen facilities I was responsible for. I'll grant you that you probably know more about VLF transmitter sites than I do as I've never visited one. But as a guy who has a few strategic detergent (work it may, shine it must) patrols under his belt, ran the LANTFLT submarine broadcasts (including ELF) for 3 years and has been on the receiving end of TACAMO and ABNCP missions, it's a little more of my lane. I was also a towed buoy antenna maintenance technician. |
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Quoted: I'll grant you that you probably know more about VLF transmitter sites than I do as I've never visited one. But as a guy who has a few strategic detergent (work it may, shine it must) patrols under his belt, ran the LANTFLT submarine broadcasts (including ELF) for 3 years and has been on the receiving end of TACAMO and ABNCP missions, it's a little more of my lane. I was also a towed buoy antenna maintenance technician. View Quote Tide or all-tempa Cheer? |
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Quoted: I'll grant you that you probably know more about VLF transmitter sites than I do as I've never visited one. But as a guy who has a few strategic detergent (work it may, shine it must) patrols under his belt, ran the LANTFLT submarine broadcasts (including ELF) for 3 years and has been on the receiving end of TACAMO and ABNCP missions, it's a little more of my lane. I was also a towed buoy antenna maintenance technician. View Quote inside the final stage of the transmitter room, before it goes out to the antenna, looks like a 1950s Sci-Fi movie. |
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Quoted: inside the final stage of the transmitter room, before it goes out to the antenna, looks like a 1950s Sci-Fi movie. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I'll grant you that you probably know more about VLF transmitter sites than I do as I've never visited one. But as a guy who has a few strategic detergent (work it may, shine it must) patrols under his belt, ran the LANTFLT submarine broadcasts (including ELF) for 3 years and has been on the receiving end of TACAMO and ABNCP missions, it's a little more of my lane. I was also a towed buoy antenna maintenance technician. inside the final stage of the transmitter room, before it goes out to the antenna, looks like a 1950s Sci-Fi movie. I'd heard they have capacitors so big they're field dayed with a foxtail and dust pan. |
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Quoted: Typed a few of those in my day. And made some phone calls about them too. One lady had a cat named Snatch. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: We used to get 10 forms to give to family with 50 blank spaces on them for family grams (name and rank got subtracted out of the 50). The opposite crew screened and uploaded them, and the XO (and/or COB) on the ship screened them before you got it in hand. You were doing well to get 6 or 7 in a 10 week patrol. I got pulled aside one day and asked "who is Missy?" by the XO. Missy was my parent's lab. The message in question included "Missy disappeared 5 days. Came home stinking of diesel and whiskey." She'd fallen into an oil drain pit in someone's barn. Anything sexy would get the name redacted and posted outside crews mess. I remember someone's wife sent something about missing Monday Night Football that was amazingly phrased and got the whole crew worked up. She was a gifted poet. And like I said, we had orders to cover scheduled HF voice transmissions from time to time as part of routine business. When the def-con ratcheted up, those bands would go in availability. "alfa velvita knuckle underwear sphincter spider mucous ringworm. I repeat alfa velvita...." with a paper shredder running in the background, and the signal fading in and out. Picture DX from turbo prop. Typed a few of those in my day. And made some phone calls about them too. One lady had a cat named Snatch. The best part was every boat in the fleet could read them on the broadcast..... |
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Quoted: I'll grant you that you probably know more about VLF transmitter sites than I do as I've never visited one. But as a guy who has a few strategic detergent (work it may, shine it must) patrols under his belt, ran the LANTFLT submarine broadcasts (including ELF) for 3 years and has been on the receiving end of TACAMO and ABNCP missions, it's a little more of my lane. I was also a towed buoy antenna maintenance technician. View Quote ill have you know that I was Assistant Urinalysis Coordinator. |
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AND! I am famously known for my role during a fire drill as Injured Man in his Rack. So much so that an entire fire team felt the urge to speak up and say that there would be no future need for such roles in the future, so convincing and bold was my portrayal. And thus afterward, the script was re-written for a new character; Injured (and Clothed Man who Uses Neither Clothespins nor Excessive Smut) in his Rack.
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And I also was The Dark Horse on Halfway Night once. I did a lot of dishes that night and got a tshirt.
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Quoted: ill have you know that I was Assistant Urinalysis Coordinator. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I'll grant you that you probably know more about VLF transmitter sites than I do as I've never visited one. But as a guy who has a few strategic detergent (work it may, shine it must) patrols under his belt, ran the LANTFLT submarine broadcasts (including ELF) for 3 years and has been on the receiving end of TACAMO and ABNCP missions, it's a little more of my lane. I was also a towed buoy antenna maintenance technician. ill have you know that I was Assistant Urinalysis Coordinator. Duty meat gazer? |
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Quoted: Google is a motherfuqqer Open source, found in seconds. You’re right though, only 60 ft down. If you believe the open source article. View Quote Somethings fucky Aircraft at 20,000ft Spools out 26,000ft of antenna with the intention of getting it as vertical as possible. All to penetrate 60ft of water |
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Quoted: AND! I am famously known for my role during a fire drill as Injured Man in his Rack. So much so that an entire fire team felt the urge to speak up and say that there would be no future need for such roles in the future, so convincing and bold was my portrayal. And thus afterward, the script was re-written for a new character; Injured (and Clothed Man who Uses Neither Clothespins nor Excessive Smut) in his Rack. View Quote How does one become "injured" in your rack? Get a little too exuberant with your patrol sock? |
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Related to topic, right in my neighborhood, built in the 1950's so not the latest stuff;
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