From: military-radio-guy Full-Name: Dennis R Starks To: military radio collectors#2 Fcc: Sent Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 04:28:47 Subject: MILITARY COLLECTOR GROUP POST, May 6/98 Message-ID: <19980506.042751.5239.1.military-radio-guy@juno.com> X-Status: Forwarded X-Mailer: Juno 1.38 MILITARY COLLECTOR GROUP POST, May 6/98 INDEX: LIBERTY SHIP/USMCHC SCHEDULE; From Brian Scace MEMBERS WRITE; LISTING MANUALS, APR-4 QUESTIONS, HUMOR; *********************************************** LIBERTY SHIP/USMCHC SCHEDULE; From Brian Scace For those of you who may be on the East coast this summer, here's what is going on with our Liberty Ship, the S. S. John W. Brown out of Baltimore, and the USMCHC. We sailed the ship this weekend down past Annapolis and back and do it again on 23May, 18Jul, and 05Sep. We also are taking it to Philadelphia over 30 and 31 May, and to Solomons MD over 06-08 August. From there, it continues to Charleston SC for the weekend of 15-16 Aug. We also will be moving from Dundalk Marine Terminal to the Baltimore Inner Harbor (Vets ride free for this one) for Veteran's Day on 08Nov. The Solomons MD program would be an interesting one to see, if you can get up there. Solomons was a Naval amphibious warfare training base during WW II. We will be demonstrating a platoon level landing exercise on Saturday and Sunday using nets over the side of the Brown into an LCM or LCT that the Navy is supplying. From there, we land at the Naval Rec center, which used to be one of the training beaches, and conduct a platoon movement to contact, just as was trained here fifty odd years ago. We've already started training up for this, with some very qualified people teaching the subtleties of net operations which are, of course, quite dangerous (steel is not very forgiving) and have not been taught in the Corps in twenty years. The Brown will be open to visitors over the weekend, the USMCHC's CP will be up and running, a field hospital will be up, and various appropriate military vehicles will be there. Also, the Services will have displays of thier own there. The Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, the Marine Corps League and various associations like the 1st MarDiv Association are to be participating, as well as the Navy, Naval Institute, Army Transportation Corps (they're supplying the tugs for the ship) and more coming aboard each week. We've created a monster with this one! The USMCHC and Project Liberty Ship are co-sponsoring this with the Calvert Marine Museum. Come see us Brian ed) the USMCHC is the USMC Historical Company, and here is a brief summery of their activities; We, the USMC Historical Company, have represented the Corps with historical programming for the U.S. Park Service, the CAF, the military posts in the National Capital Area, the Navy Memorial, Calvert Marine Museum, the USS North Carolina, and the SS John W. Brown (where we exchange Forest Green for the dungarees of the U S Navy Armed Guard). We also use this as a training vehicle for teaching specific lessons in Military Science and Naval History for several of the JROTC and ROTC programs in the area. We are currently writing a POI for using this in support of the OCS, to allow the new officer a deeper understanding of the current doctrine by exposing him or her to the roots and origins of that doctrine. I should also note that Brian is currently involve in the restoration of the internal communications system(among others) of this Liberty Ship. As his expertise are limited in this area, any technical advise would be greatly appreciated. *********************************************** MEMBERS WRITE; LISTING MANUALS, Dennis, Here is a generic suggestion that would help a lot of us. Post a request that anyone advertising, or desiring, military manuals include the manual date. Many manuals have been printed with the same number but with variations over the years. Those of us interested in particular eras would find this a great convenience. Also, people who collect manuals will find it easier to find missing issues. This is not a problem with civilian equipment since manuals were usually only printed once. However, military equiment that was in service for any length of time usually went through several manual revisions, changes, etc. Lenox ed) I totaly agree ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- APR-4 QUESTIONS, Dennis, Are the IFs of the APR-4 stagger tuned for broader bandpass? And are the coils in the IFs swamped (shunt resistors) to reduce the "Q" for broader band width? Could the IFs be tuned tighter (all to the same center freq.) to make the radio more selective and maybe more sensitive? Same question about removing the swamping resistors? I know you have been busy with your spring cleaning and hamfests. Hang in there, you are providing a great service. 73s Jack Awbrey jawbrey@juno.com ed) I don't have any idea, I've not been in an APR-4 in about 20 years, and then I was just conserned with the power supply. Seems to me I once read a magazine artical that outlined what you think possible. One thing is for sure, the APR-4 was purposely designed to have a broad IF/RF section as are all search, and direction finding receivers, and as such, might well be reversable. The broad nature of these type receivers was for two major reasons. #1) in VHF/UHF search receivers, the extremely wide bandwidth of the radar, and countermeasures emissions they were expected to detect. #2) In all search and direction finding/surveillance equipment. In the days before scanners, an operator would manually tune back and forth across his assigned section of the frequency spectrum, which might be rather wide. If the receiver being used had very tight selectivity, the operator, with the speeds he'd be cranking the dial, might pass right over a signal without detecting it. This is also the reason that a host of equipment built by such test equipment companies as Stoddard, and commonly called noise intensity meters, or interference detection/location receivers were actually little more than very elaborate tuned RF detectors. But their purpose in life was to detect and locate enemy jamming equipment and the like, in the same fashion as receivers built specifically for this application. *********************************************** HUMOR; A guy goes to a doctor and says, "Doc, you've got to help me. My penis is orange." The doctor pauses to think and asks the guy to drop his pants so he can check. Damned if the guy's penis isn't orange. Doc tells the guy, "This is very strange. Sometimes things like this are caused by a lot of stress in a person's life." Probing as to the causes of possible stress, the doc asks the guy, "How are things going at work?" The guy responds that he was fired about six weeks ago. The doctor tells him that this must be the cause of the stress. Guy responds, "No. The boss was a real asshole, I had to work 20-30 hours of overtime every week and I had no say in anything that was happening. I found a new job a couple of weeks ago where I can set my own hours, I'm getting paid double what I got on the old job and the boss is a really great guy." So the doc figures this isn't the reason. He asks the guy, "How's your home life?" The guy says, "Well, I got divorced about eight months ago." The doc figures that this has got to be the reason for all of the guys stress. Guy says, "No. For years, all I listened to was nag, nag, nag. God, am I glad to be rid of that old bitch." So the doc takes a few minutes to think a little longer. He inquires, "Do you have any hobbies or a social life?" The guy replies, "No, not really. Most nights I sit home, watch some porno flicks and munch on Cheetos!!!" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A man was late for work. "What's the idea of being late?" asked the boss. "Well, the alarm clock woke up everybody but me this morning." "What do you mean, the alarm clock woke up everybody in the family but you?" "Well, there's eight in our family and the clock was set for seven." " -- "Senator" Ed Ford ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 10 Ways To Tell If A Redneck Has Been Working At A Computer In Your Office: 10: The monitor is up on blocks. 9: Outgoing faxes have tobacco stains on them. 8: The sixfront keys have rotted out. 7: The extra RAM slots have Dodge truck parts installed in them. 6: The numeric key pad only goes up to six. 5: The password is "Bubba". 6: There is a gun rack mounted on the CPU. 3: There is a Skoal can in the CD-ROM drive. 2: The keyboard is camouflaged. And the number 1 way is : 1: The mouse is referred to as a "critter". ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Gates dies in a car accident. He finds himself in purgatory, being sized up by God.... "Well, Bill, I'm really confused on this call; I'm not sure whether to send you to Heaven or Hell. After all, you enormously helped society by putting a computer in almost every home in America, yet you also created that ghastly Windows '95. I'm going to do something I've never done before in your case; I'm going to let you decide where you want to go." Bill replied, "well, what's the difference between the two?" God said, "I'm willing to let you visit both places briefly, if it will help your decision." "Fine, but where should I go first?" "I'll leave that up to you." "Okay then," said Bill, "Let's try Hell first." So Bill went to Hell. It was a beautiful, clean, sandy beach with clear waters and lots of Beautiful women running around, playing in the water, laughing and frolicking about. The sun was shining; the temperature perfect. He was very pleased. "This is great!" he told God. "If this is hell, I REALLY want to see heaven!" "Fine," said God, and off they went. Heaven was a place high in the clouds, with angels drifting about, playing harps and singing. It was nice, but not as enticing as Hell. Bill thought for a quick minute, and rendered his decision. "Hmmm. I think I'd prefer Hell," he told God. "Fine," retorted God, "as you desire." So Bill Gates went to Hell. Two weeks later, God decided to check on the late billionaire to see how Mr. Gates was doing in Hell. When he got there, he found Bill, shackled to a wall, screaming amongst hot flames in a dark cave -- being burned and tortured by demons. "How's everything going?" he asked Bill. Bill howled out, with his voice filled with anguish and disappointment, "this is awful! This is nothing like the Hell you showed me! Ican't believe this is happening! What happened to that other place, with the beaches, the beautiful women playing in the water?!??? "That was a demo," replied God. *********************************************** (The preceding was a product of the"Military Collector Group Post", an international email magazine dedicated to the preservation of history and the equipment that made it. Unlimited circulation of this material is authorized so long as the proper credits to the original authors, and publisher are included. For more information conserning this group contact Dennis Starks at, military-radio-guy@juno.com) ***********************************************