No .... I joined Apr 30, 2005.

My forum of choice was point/counterpoint at fredsplace.org from the mid 90s through it's iterations and sale to military advantage and the latest iteration now resides at military.com.

I view three forums a day. The Coast Guard Discussions at military.com, the discussions at CGChiefs.com, and allaboutcircuits.com

The other electronics ones I visited a few times the past decade, but AAC is where I hang my hat. I even gave up on reading the NNTP newsgroups.

I just visited the last page of the homework section and the two topics from Oct 2003 are still there, the welcome by jrap and the first question, that went unanwered. That poster was a one and done poster.

 

Wanted: Diving information. I can use this post as a post It.

 

@ Joe Jester,Before Irene I was reading a post about a 1993 superstorm
off the gulf coast.The coast guard rescued a couple off there roof in
city called Pine Island north of Tampa.The part of the story that was
very interesting was the high winds that the coast guard operated in.
They allways say you can't get rescued in high winds,in Irene they did some
rescues also.The point that they can operate in higher winds than most
people think thats possible.

 

They will operate within their limits ... and have done so.

Bernie Webber took a 36 ft surfboat out to rescue the crew of the tanker Pendleton, in 1952, facing 60 foot waves. Story at http://www.uscglightshipsailors.org/crossed_the_bar/webber/

The perfect storm of 1991 had the Cutter Tamaroa rescuing the crew of a sailboat 75 miles off Nantucket Island and the crew from a National Guard Helo. Story at http://www.zunitamaroa.org/history.html

There were plenty of rescues during Katrina and other hurrcanes. I'm sure we could find newsclips of the rescues in Betsy in 1960s as well.

There are plenty of fine young men and women doing what is necessary in the smallest branch of the Armed Forces.

The surfmen train at Cape Disappointment ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Ot9A-8Qm0 is a nice video of a self-righting motor lifeboat.

 

(9/19/2011/) Loosewire At Night -

 

( 9/20/2011 ) Loosewire At Night- Hey Joe how are you to nite,that was a good answer about
the Coast Guard,were you a member. At the beginning of the Keys there use to be Saloon called
the LAST CHANCE SALOON did you ever hear of it. Right after we left the saloon we came to a bridge
threw a line in the water.An eel about 5' foot long hit on it..he was mean..we couldn't get the line cut
quick enough It was wrapping right up the line to the end of the pole.I don't know If you call them snaping
or biteing.I like say he was too mean to handle and we were on a bridge,we didn't feel safe until he was cut loose.

 

I was in the CG from 1972 to 1994. During that period I was on the last island in the Aleutian Chain twice (Loran Station Attu Island), Brooklyn Supply Center in the Industrial Division overhauling electronics and supervised repairs (twice). Was in southern Italy for two years at Loran Station Sellia Marinia. At the Training Center teaching Loran (twice), on the COMLANTAREA's Loran staff inspecting stations and officer in charge twice, once at Loran Station Nantucket Island and once at Loran Station Boise City OK.

If you have questions about those loran stations, visit http://www.loran-history.info

 

@ Joe, the old M.I.T.buildings look the same as the World 11 buildings
at the old naval station at the Fort Lauderdale. There is a part of a building
left for history. Maybe a google search would find it. It would be great to find
out the builder for the government during the war. Maybe the corp of engineers,

 

Lots of research was done in those buildings. In the late 40s, MIT Radiation Labs produced a series of books discussing their efforts during WWII. The twenty eight volume series covered Radar to Computing Mechanisms. For a listing see http://web.mit.edu/klund/www/weblatex/node7.html

That would be a good start for anyone wanting to trace the history of the related systems.