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Comment on Meaning of SOS by Glenn Folkerts

Glenn Folkerts — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:46:16 +0000

To The Attention of Neal McEwen

Reference your write up of the meaning of SOS, I found the article very interesting.

I was a Radioman aboard the USS Evert F. Larson DDR #630 in 1950 – 1952.

The lastt part of the second paragraph I believe if should read as follows. Morse Code is that which the Railroad stations and various othert land line locations used .

This sound consisted of clicks and the time frame between clicks repesented a DOT/DASH.

Wireless used what was called Internationsl Morse Code and you actually heard a DOT/DASH as “DIT-DAH”.

I enjoyed readin and especialllllllllly picked up on the CQ-D

Thanks

Glenn

Comment on Time-lapase Photography by Heather Oehmig

Heather Oehmig — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:34:01 +0000

Those are some excellent photographs, wish mine were that competent!

Comment on International Fuel by Neal Seibel

Neal Seibel — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:10:42 +0000

I hardly ever comment on blogs. I did however really enjoy reading the original authors article. I’ll look over the rest of the this site. Thanks

Comment on Infrared Photography by Km

Km — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:56:10 +0000

While converting a camera to shoot infrared can be a bit of an investment, I have found it to be a great option when shooting infrared. Have had two cameras (one DSLR and one Point and Shoot) converted in the past 6 months and have not regretted the investment.

Comment on International Fuel by Power Home Solar Review

Power Home Solar Review — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:20:04 +0000

Great site, I will be back. Well done

Comment on AIS by Alex

Alex — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:31:13 +0000

Hi, its the maker of the website above!
Honestly I’m not familiar at all with the Arduino board.
If you can develop it with C code and your hardware accepts interrupts, you are almost there.
Im interested to see what you come up with…

Comment on Maunsell abandoned Army Sea Forts, Red Sands Shivering Sands, Thames estuary, UK by Ian

Ian — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:08:13 +0000

These “clusters” form one of two types of fort; this is the army design. There was also a navy design: one large structure supported by two larger legs. The forts were heavily involved with UK pirate radio after the war. The forts were Sunk Head, Tongue Sands, Knock John, Roughs, Red Sands, Shivering Sands, and Nore. The first four were navy ones – two remain – and the latter three were the army fort complexes (again, two remain)

There’s plenty of information about them and their history on the following website: http://www.bobleroi.co.uk/ScrapBook/CityReunion/FortFanatics.html

This site also deals with the history of many of the pirate radio stations operating offshore, but if you search, you will find links and information about The Principality of Sealand, the destruction of the aptly named Sunk Head navy fort by the Royal Engineers (good picture of the explosion at http://www.bobleroi.co.uk/ScrapBook/Tower_4/Tower_4.html), the remains of Tongue Sands fort, which collapsed about 13-14 years ago, with lots in interesting broadcasting history chucked in. As I spent some of my formative years in East Kent, these strange structures fascinated me. The rest of the stuff on that site is worth a read if you have the time, and the links section is also worth looking at. In fact, I recommend following these:

http://www.ssrichardmontgomery.com/
http://www.afloattv.com/video_6.htm

A bit sinister but totally true, and unfortunately totally still there!

Comment on Yorkshire 3 peaks part II by Lucy @ the down jacket site

Lucy @ the down jacket site — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:00:41 +0000

Hi, how are you?
I’ve enjoyed reading some of the articles on your website. I was trying to find a contacts form to see if you’d give me some advice on my new site http://www.downjacket.org.uk, if you have some time I’d love you to let me know what you think, or even link to it if you really like it.

thank you!

Lucy

Comment on been a while by admin

admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:13:28 +0000

it was one of those supermarket ones. there was no warning.The only thing i can work out what caused it was the seal at the top of the gas bottle failed leaking gas and as I moved down to get the lower bit I was working on the flame must have ignited the gas. it was just a boom no flame. so the sudden expansion of air near my hand and the sudden increase in temp burn the hand. It was all over in an instant so the heat did not have chance to burn deep only just the surface of my hand.only a tinh bit of scarring and if you did not know you would not notice.

Comment on been a while by suburban bushwacker

suburban bushwacker — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:27:57 +0000

hey fella
Saw your link of a post on British Blades and thought i’d have a look.
Bit worried by this post!
I spend a lot of time sweating unions myself, what happened? what brand of burner were you using? Was there any warning that it was about to go pop?

Glad to hear your getting better
SBW