On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 12:09:17 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:

~~ snippage ~~

All this high-tech nonsense...I can hit the dock anytime I want...eyes
open or closed.

LOL!!

I can too - I don't, but I can.

Later,

Tom
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"Angling may be said to be so
like the mathematics that it
can never be fully learnt..."

Izaak Walton "The Compleat Angler", 1653

On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 15:59:22 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
A question I would ask would be: If there is an interfering signal
during a command sequence that interfers with the controller's ability
to sent the appropriate command, do the thrust/engine controllers move
to neutral or so they stay locked on the last command?

There are a host of other questions, but that is the most important
one.

I'd bet anything, they didn't think of that scenario. :)

===============================================

I don't know for sure but I'd bet that they did. There are some
tremendously sophisticated remote control systems on the market these
days, 100 ton travel lifts for example, this docking system for
another, and robotic airplanes. When you are talking about large,
powerful and expensive equipment, reliability and the ability to "fail
safe" have got to be the number one design priorities. It is
relatively easy in the digital age to engineer a communications
protocol that constantly checks on both directions of transmission and
sounds an alarm (stops the equipment) if the link fails for any
reason.

"Gould 0738" wrote in message
...
Note: 25-feet feet

A lovely young lady cleans up my goofs and gaffes. I always try to include
at
least a few to keep her steadily employed. :-)

Also, and I'm not expert so if I'm wrong - so be it, but is it right to
put "Bingo" in quotes every single time it's mentioned.

Actually, yes it is. The name of a vessel should always be enclosed in
quotes,
or italicized. I type extremely fast, and almost completely intuitively,
and I
can do quotes with exceptional ease while I need to stop and think through
the
process to italicize. The same lovely young lady usually substitutes
italicized type for my quotes around the name of a vessel, but both are
considered correct.

Ahh, yes. If the name were italicized each time that would "feel" right. All
those
quotes seems somehow distracting - even if they are officially correct.
You've got
a proof reader - so I'll just sit back and enjoy the content from now on.

Gary

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On 05 Oct 2004 15:09:34 GMT, (Gould 0738) wrote:

A question I would ask would be: If there is an interfering signal
during a command sequence that interfers with the controller's ability
to sent the appropriate command, do the thrust/engine controllers move
to neutral or so they stay locked on the last command?

There are a host of other questions, but that is the most important
one.

I'd bet anything, they didn't think of that scenario. :)

Take care.


The article states, "If for any reason the signal should be interrupted,
the controls automatically return to neutral." So it would seem they
did think of this and came to the same conclusion as you did about
what to do in that event.

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 00:31:44 -0400, "Gary Warner"
wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
.. .
On 05 Oct 2004 15:09:34 GMT, (Gould 0738) wrote:

A question I would ask would be: If there is an interfering signal
during a command sequence that interfers with the controller's ability
to sent the appropriate command, do the thrust/engine controllers move
to neutral or so they stay locked on the last command?

There are a host of other questions, but that is the most important
one.

I'd bet anything, they didn't think of that scenario. :)

Take care.


The article states, "If for any reason the signal should be interrupted,
the controls automatically return to neutral." So it would seem they
did think of this and came to the same conclusion as you did about
what to do in that event.

Ah, I must have missed that.

It would seem they did then.

Later,

Tom
-----------
"Angling may be said to be so
like the mathematics that it
can never be fully learnt..."

Izaak Walton "The Compleat Angler", 1653

On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 20:39:41 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 15:59:22 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
A question I would ask would be: If there is an interfering signal
during a command sequence that interfers with the controller's ability
to sent the appropriate command, do the thrust/engine controllers move
to neutral or so they stay locked on the last command?

There are a host of other questions, but that is the most important
one.

I'd bet anything, they didn't think of that scenario. :)

===============================================

I don't know for sure but I'd bet that they did. There are some
tremendously sophisticated remote control systems on the market these
days, 100 ton travel lifts for example, this docking system for
another, and robotic airplanes. When you are talking about large,
powerful and expensive equipment, reliability and the ability to "fail
safe" have got to be the number one design priorities. It is
relatively easy in the digital age to engineer a communications
protocol that constantly checks on both directions of transmission and
sounds an alarm (stops the equipment) if the link fails for any
reason.

I can stop cars dead in their tracks with my 160 meter transmitter in
my truck. And if I'm really feeling mean, I use my mobile linear on a
remote tuned antenna. :)

You cannot successfully protect a small, hang-around-your-neck
controller from EMP which is similar to what I'm talking about.

Then again, I reread the article and caught the relevant section, so
the point is mute.

Later,

Tom

On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 10:06:35 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
I can stop cars dead in their tracks with my 160 meter transmitter in
my truck. And if I'm really feeling mean, I use my mobile linear on a
remote tuned antenna. :)

You cannot successfully protect a small, hang-around-your-neck
controller from EMP which is similar to what I'm talking about.

Then again, I reread the article and caught the relevant section, so
the point is mute.
========================================

You "Top Band" guys are incorrigible. Is there much activity these
days?

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


I can stop cars dead in their tracks with my 160 meter transmitter in
my truck. And if I'm really feeling mean, I use my mobile linear on a
remote tuned antenna. :)

Braggart...after a dinner of hot dogs, kraut, beans and beer, my exhaust
would not only stop you dead in your tracks, you'd be dead, period. So
there.




--
"...vice president (Cheney), I'm surprised to hear him talk about
records. When he was one of 435 members of the United States House, he
was one of 10 to vote against Head Start, one of four to vote against
banning plastic weapons that can pass through metal detectors. He voted
against the Department of Education. He voted against funding for
Meals on Wheels for seniors. He voted against a holiday for Martin
Luther King. He voted against a resolution calling for the release of
Nelson Mandela in South Africa. It's amazing to hear him criticize
either my record or John Kerry's."

- Senator John Edwards, 10/05/04

On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 08:25:55 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 10:06:35 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
I can stop cars dead in their tracks with my 160 meter transmitter in
my truck. And if I'm really feeling mean, I use my mobile linear on a
remote tuned antenna. :)

You cannot successfully protect a small, hang-around-your-neck
controller from EMP which is similar to what I'm talking about.

Then again, I reread the article and caught the relevant section, so
the point is mute.
========================================

You "Top Band" guys are incorrigible. Is there much activity these
days?

Yes and no. It's not like it used to be - I can work up a few QSO's
during the day and at night, but with the lowered CW requirement,
there aren't a lot of good high speed CW ops around anymore and that's
my real passion. In fact, there aren't a lot of good high speed ops
around period.

At the upper end, there's a lot of political nonsense now - righties,
lefties, jammers, etc - it's like 14.313 used to be on twenty meters.

However, occasionally I get out with the mobile stuff and show the
flag. Then I have to slow down to their speeds and I get bored.

Of course the ARS has changed since I was licensed. Back in the day,
it was a ton of fun and you could do things like work somebody a state
or two over using a 100 watt light bulb as a dummy load and the cold
water pipes as a RF ground. :)

My favorite QSO was when I received my General Ticket in the mail - I
immediately ran down to the TV store where I worked after school and
begged the owner, who was a ham, to use his Heathkit 10 meter lunchbox
(this was a five watt AM rig remember). We went out back, loaded uip
the lunchbox on an 11 meter steel whip and I did a CQ. DL3ALT
returned my call and I was the happiest guy in the world - man, that
was 'da bomb - I was talking to somebody in freakin' Germany!!!!

Now, all I need to do is pick up my cell phone and I can talk to my
oldest in Germany anytime I want.

By wireless. :)

Oh well - sorry for the trip down memory lane.

Take care.

Tom

"The beatings will stop when morale improves."
E. Teach, 1717

On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 08:30:10 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


I can stop cars dead in their tracks with my 160 meter transmitter in
my truck. And if I'm really feeling mean, I use my mobile linear on a
remote tuned antenna. :)

Braggart...after a dinner of hot dogs, kraut, beans and beer, my exhaust
would not only stop you dead in your tracks, you'd be dead, period. So
there.

I'm a former rifleman - C-RATS after two weeks, we didn't need to
defoliate anything - we could do it all by ourselves.

So there. :)

All the best,

Tom
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is there a computer terminal in the day room of
some looney bin somewhere?"

Bilgeman - circa 2004