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Furuno Radar Problem
.. Yup, once in a while the scanner bearing seal or water in the
motor housing would let the scanner main bearing get corroded or filled with gunky stuff, but never saw the rotating joint freeze up! I have, a couple of times, managed to successfully break, bend or otherwise defeat the waveguide alignment scheme. Targets were not all that lively, and wiped out the crystals in fairly short order. Probably didn't do the maggie too much good either. Head hanging in shame. Again. Old Chief Lynn That's what you get when you don't use a good brand of relative bearing grease! g Good grief, is that something made from aunts or cousins?.......... ducking............... OCL |
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"Sun Dragon" wrote in
: A roll of aluminum foil and a "green" deckhand made for good humor, I would instruct the deckhand to wrap himself in foil, stand upon the foredeck, as we would command him to hold himself in rather odd body positions while the chief and myself up in the wheelhouse "tuned" the radar. If possible we would do this in port, prefferably so the crews of other vessels could be witness to the charade. The tinfoil hat was always the crowd pleaser. Darn. I never saw that trick.....(c; Thanks. Bored to tears crossing the Atlantic for Naples at our breakneck speed of 17 knots, some of the boys in the DASH helo hanger got the bright idea to screw with the CIC watch (an oxymoron in a tender with 2 3" cannons the gummer's mates have to break out the manual to fire). They built a tin foil kite out of Reynolds Wrap stolen from the galley, a really nice box kite with fiberglass spars. The DASH helo deck was above our fantail and a great place at sea to fly kites, which up to this point was no problem. They had about 3 miles of some exotic monofilament line with an amazing tensile strength, but little weight/mile. After darken ship (why we did that was always a mystery), when you couldn't see it, they flew the kite behind Everglades and payed out lots of this tiny line. The kite was quite large and had a lot of lift. It would fly back until you could hardly see it, its line seemingly trailing off to nowhere. Flying above the fantail watch, who was looking at the horizon, not for the Luftwaffe above, he reported nothing. Not so the radar operator in CIC. He sounded the alarm of a UFO trailing the ship on the Raytheon Pathfinder (SPS-21) display at about 2 miles. The watch reported no sighting as the kite was too far away by the time he looked for it. The ship's log was duly noted and everyone aboard, mostly the enlisted ratings who knew all about what was going on, was told to keep a sharp eye. Every night, for over a week, this "thing" would show up on radar in the dark and trail the ship for hours...Then, just after midnight, it would approach the ship and disappear, suddenly, off the radar less than a mile away, undetectable. Finally discovered what it was by the Comm Officer who observed its launch from the deck outside Radio Central one night, the jig was up. The airdales on the helo deck apologized and said they'd been flying many kites. This one was just new. They pleaded innocent, which they weren't. Our captain decided it was a great test of CIC efficiency, an unintended drill of great success. The kite continued to fly, but with a new Saran Wrap covering that was radar transparent, compliments of the Chief Radarman and cooks....(c; Larry -- VIRUS ALERT! VISTA has been released! NOONE will be spared! |
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Our SPS-6 aboard USS Everglades (AD-24)... Sea stories? Oh boy! Now this one is a no ****ter. In 1965, up on one of the westernmost islands in the Aleutian chain, we used to send guys outside with a compass, a pair of binoculars, and a notepad, to watch for the Russians making overflights. They were told the aircraft would be either GU11's or B1RD's and to note the number of aircraft in the flight, relative bearing, and approximate distance. Sometimes we'd use two guys and one of them would be a runner to bring the reports back in where they were plotted and tracked on a map. Jack -- Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA (jackerbes at adelphia dot net) (also receiving email at jacker at midmaine dot com) |
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Jack,
What Island was that? I spent a year at Shemya (aka "The Rock") Ken On Feb 9, 2:04 pm, Jack Erbes wrote: snip Our SPS-6 aboard USS Everglades (AD-24)... Sea stories? Oh boy! Now this one is a no ****ter. In 1965, up on one of the westernmost islands in the Aleutian chain, we used to send guys outside with a compass, a pair of binoculars, and a notepad, to watch for the Russians making overflights. |
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Jack, What Island was that? I spent a year at Shemya (aka "The Rock") Ken That was it. I worked out at the AAFJOG on Shemya for about 8 months in 1966, we were a small detachment from NAVCOMMSTA Adak. Jack -- Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA (jackerbes at adelphia dot net) (also receiving email at jacker at midmaine dot com) |
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What Island was that? I spent a year at Shemya (aka "The Rock")
Ken That was it. I worked out at the AAFJOG on Shemya for about 8 months in 1966, we were a small detachment from NAVCOMMSTA Adak. Jack We sent a reserve crew from Travis to Shemya one weekend in the early 1970's, flying a C-141, carrying rebar for...... what was it? Cobra Dane maybe? Anyway, the reserve pilot debriefed back at Travis that he landed, did an "engine running" offload, and departed without ever seeing the ground. The snow was blowing sideways in a virtual whiteout, and all he could see was the tail-lights of the "follow-me" vehicle, and the wands of the "marshaller" I heard the debrief.... was it really like that at times? Old Chief Lynn |
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I was there in '82-'83 working at the Cobra Dane (the replacement for
the FPS-108). The wind was a constant 25 knots or so and the high temperature the year I was there was 55F. The low was only 7F but with the wind it was like a least -17F. When the wind really blew we would have to go out roped together. Trying to keep this on topic a little bit...You could take "bad" flourescent light bulbs to the top of the building and drop them in front of radar and they would light up before they broke 6 stories below. Funny thing was the Russians used to bring trawlers within 2-300 yards to gather intel even thouhgh we vectored our aircraft far away...! On Feb 11, 9:52 pm, Jack Erbes wrote: definer wrote: Jack, What Island was that? I spent a year at Shemya (aka "The Rock") Ken That was it. I worked out at the AAFJOG on Shemya for about 8 months in 1966, we were a small detachment from NAVCOMMSTA Adak. Jack -- Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA (jackerbes at adelphia dot net) (also receiving email at jacker at midmaine dot com) |
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