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Venom wrote:Well, I'm new here so I figured I'd post up and say howdy.
My user name comes from me being a herpetologist specializing in venomous snakes.

Cool!

jimlongley

killerquad wrote:
casselthief wrote:
killerquad wrote:Marlon
Wayans????
Its funny...when I tell people my name they can never get it right, then I tell them you know like Brando and sure enough 99 percent of them will reply "oh Marlon!!" of course two seconds later they just call me Brando

Thanks Cosmo...and this year it will be on 07-07-07.

Like the ship I served on - DD777.

jimlongley

Someone mentioned Compuserve IDs a while back, and I still remember mine - 70705,211. The young lady at Compuserve was very upset when I called to cancel my membership in 2002 (due to lack of funds) because I had been a member for close to 20 years.

jimlongley

stevie_d_64 wrote:jack of all trades!

You waved skivvies???? Say it isn't so!

Nah, I wasn't allowed any official status on the signal bridge, but copying semaphore was kind of fun when it was being used ship to ship, but even more fun was, when the ship was anchored out, getting the attention of the duty signalman and requesting a boat to pick us up just by waving my hands.

I als used to help the night baker make the bread for the next day, and got a hot fresh loaf or two for my efforts. Cut off one end of the loaf, hollowed it out (and ate the "hollowing") dumped in a stick of butter and a large gob of peanut butter, and left to go stand aft steering watch.

jimlongley

stevie_d_64 wrote:No...

I believe only Radio Operator rates in the Navy when I was in were actually being taught Morse...Along with all the hardware and operations stuff they had to learn...

Since I was a Radar Operator, and only dealt with the tactical operations of the ship, and only operating the commo gear...We were never taught Morse...We just "kacked" up our signals and sent them out plain voice if it wasn't an incrypted net...

I learned enough of the morse code to be fairly adept in listening in and catching most of the messages...And it was mainly for fun...

I've lost some of the ear for it though...

This hijacking has goosed me to get back into it...

I passed the Morse test, with flying colors, so they made me a Gunner's Mate.

I learned Semaphore and Signal Flags just for grins and giggles, and used to sneak in to CIC to stand Radar and Sonar stack watches when I could get away with it. I was learning American Sign Language when the Signalman that was teaching me decided to quit the Navy, I never took it back up.

BTW, my parents gave me my screen name before anyone even knew what a screen was (unless it was a door.)

jimlongley

KBCraig wrote:
jimlongley wrote:I was a member of the Morse Telegraph Club for many years, a close friend was the international secretary, and was (emphasis on WAS) learning American Morse, but got lost at 'C'
They are a bit different. (For those who don't get it, Jim ran into the "space" within "C", which isn't part of International Morse.)

RR Morse is supposedly a lot faster, but RR ops also used a lot of shorthand and jargon that was very specific to them. Some of it would violate the 10 year old daughter rule, but that's true of railroaders in general.

When I was a kid, a friend of Dad's owned and operated a miniature railroad and Old West town. He had Dad record an endless loop of telegraph messages, which could be heard playing through the depot window. Being something of a joker, Dad included a few "railroadisms". His friend said it was easy to spot the true RR operators, because they'd cock their heads and listen for a minute, then fall out laughing.

We have a lot of old telegraph equipment that was salvaged from the KCS. Keys, bugs, sounders, switches, relays, etc.

Kevin

Well, "Lost at 'C'" was a ham joke when I was a kid. A ham copying American Morse would interpret 'C' as 'I E' and 'R' as 'E I' and 'P' became '5'

Of course hams adopted the Phillips Code and various of the other abbrviations and code.

I also used to be a Teletype" repairman, back in the "green keys" days and can recite the entire QWERTY keyboard from memory, even if I can't touch type.

Have we hijacked this thread enough yet?

jimlongley

KBCraig wrote:
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73 back atcha.

I'm not a ham, but I do some SWL now and then. Dad was a railroad telegraph operator and taught me a little bit of RR Morse, which is an entirely different animal!

Kevin

I was a member of the Morse Telegraph Club for many years, a close friend was the international secretary, and was (emphasis on WAS) learning American Morse, but got lost at 'C'

http://www.morsetelegraphclub.org/

jimlongley

Diode wrote:
llwatson wrote:First user name I ever had, from back in the very beginning; when Al Gore first invented the internet. When bulletin boards, DOS commands, and 4 color monitors were all new and exciting.

Yes, I am old. And, as I am old and tired, I have not been able to expend any precious energy thinking up a new and clever name. So, here I am. First initial, middle initial, last name.

LL Watson
Ah! SO you are from back when Bill Gates said no one would ever need more than 640k of memory? I can still remember running everything from 5.25 in. floppies and what would I do with a 10 meg HD.

640(Heck), I remember when 64 was all that could be addressed. Until I moved back to TX I had 8 inch floppy drives in the basement waiting for me to hook them back up SINGLE DENSITY!!! And I could tell you stories about communicating in Morse Code.

Back when a baud MIGHT actually equal a bit, and when 300 bps modems were a step up in bit rate.

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jimlongley

XDgal wrote:Unlike some of the more creative screen names on here, mine is pretty simple, I carry two XDs and I'm a gal. Love my XDs! And, like wo5m, and K5NRA ( was that random or by choice? ) , I'm a radio operator, too. KE5KMS.

By choice of course! I rewarded myself when I made Extra.

jimlongley

wo5m wrote:Mine originates from amateur radio. wo5m is the callsign that was issued by the FCC. I use it on just about every public forum. Also Iâ€™m not the only radio operator on here. I know of at least one other there may be more.

If you where to google my callsign you would find out more about me than googling my name.

I would use my call, but on a gun related forum it might seem like just a little too much showing off.

de K5NRA, Jim

jimlongley

I think mine is pretty much self-explanatory.

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