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Author Topic: Where's Paul Thompson? Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 04-01-2004 08:29 PM                        You mean you're not supposed to just follow the arrow and then look for a water tower?  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 04-01-2004 08:36 PM                  Paul, you are kiddin'... I cannot even write that slow! >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 04-01-2004 08:39 PM                        It's that slow so that you can do other things at the same time... like fly to the next VOR.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 04-01-2004 09:09 PM                        Daryl, that's what I teach in the nav class I've got this semester. IFR--I Follow Roads/Rivers/Rails... Water towers... "Dammit! The only thing it said on the side of that schoolbus was "schoolbus!"  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 04-01-2004 09:13 PM                        All this coming from a Certified F'in Idiot.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 04-02-2004 01:09 AM                       quote: t's strange, but at around 12-20 wpm... I seem to hear words not "code". Yeah, me too, especially with Farnsworth weighting at a slightly higher value than the target wpm. When you hear whole words, that's when you've "got it". quote: An interesting side note: The Capitol Records building here... spells "HOLLYWOOD". Oh, that's cool! I saw that building when I was driving by on the freeway a couple months ago, but it was in the daytime.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 04-02-2004 09:15 PM                     My latest "Sanity" (or shall I say, "Insanity") project. This is after I re-installed all the transformers. I left all the covers off so you can see what I am goofing around with.  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 04-03-2004 02:46 AM                        Wait a minute... That's the old KGHO transmitter. It replaced an old Gates box back about then. Tom Cauthers sold it to Ernie Linnenkohl & Buzz Barr. You're right... it is a good box. KITZ has one in Silverdale, though they don't use it much since they replaced their Bauer with a Gates 1. Decent Eimac 5-500 jars were getting a bit hard to get, too... I think.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 04-03-2004 05:27 AM                  Paul! You lucky dog! That is sooooo cool! >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Luciano Brigite Master Film Handler Posts: 277 From: Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil Registered: Jan 2002 posted 04-04-2004 10:35 PM                     No glowing plates this time,I hope  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 04-04-2004 11:16 PM                        Oh, they glow all right... but you need a solid state box to out-modulate it... it's a real screamer.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 04-05-2004 12:00 AM                     I don't have to worry about the plates glowing red in the ITA. At about 0300 this morning, it caught fire and self distructed. She is total junk. The HV choke melted down, the bias supply transformer is burned up, an oil filled capacitor blew up, a couple of relays were melted into a pile of goo, and a major wiring loom got burned up. There was some smoke damage to the transmitter room air conditioner, but the old 10KW Collins escaped damage. We are on the air. A strange phenomona happened...KBRC went off the air and the Gentner alerted the program director who came down to get the computer system in sync. When he approached the building, there was smoke pouring out of the transmitter room. He discovered the ITA was actually on fire, and he shut down the breakers and transmitter and called the fire department. KBRC is not remotely tied into the ITA KAPS transmitter whatsoever. Had not for KBRC going off the air, I think we would have seen the entire building in one huge pile of ashes at daybreak. The insurance adjuster will be on site tomorrow, and soon as I get clearence from the inspector to do so, I am going to dismantle what is left of the transmitter and salvage anything that might still be good. The remaining bones will be hauled off to the scrap yard. I am going to be very busy for the next couple of weeks or so, as we have a Harris DX-10 coming in to replace the Collins 10KW and the old burned out 1KW ITA.  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 04-05-2004 01:33 AM                        WOW... you really do have your hands full! I was going to suggest you keep quiet about your Collins box... but you'll probably be able to get every power level you'll ever need out of the DX-10! Good luck, Paul!  |  IP: Logged Oscar Neundorfer Master Film Handler Posts: 275 From: Senoia, GA Registered: May 2000 posted 04-05-2004 07:05 AM                        quote: It's strange, but at around 12-20 wpm it starts sounding like I'm "hearing" a language and don't have to "think" about the di-dah's. I seem to hear words not "code". When I was in high school, my best friend's Dad was always using CW on the HAM bands. He was a former Navy code operator, and that guy was amazing. He could sit at his rig, drinking his coffee, carrying on a conversation with his son and I, and be copying what had to be at least 35 to 45 wpm code buried in noise so bad I could barely even hear the code. To him, it was just another language in which he was exceptionally fluent. I never got much past 15 wpm, although on a good day, when listening to machine produced code, I could go a little faster, maybe close to 20. I downloaded a very nice Morse code practice program a while back. This is the download url if anyone is interested: Morse code practice program It is named: CW3, An International Morse Code Practice Program by William A. Thompson Copyright 1999  |  IP: Logged Lance C. McFetridge Expert Film Handler Posts: 135 From: Penn Yan, New York Registered: Jul 99 posted 04-05-2004 05:02 PM                     I thought that the VOR identifier was something that was used to drive either a cfii or examiner nuts. Simply turn up the nav volume to identify the station, leave it up for say 10 minutes or so and the right seat get real annoyed. lance  |  IP: Logged

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