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Interesting day at the Marion County Fl.Veteran's Park

A monument to the Nautilus was unveiled today. This was the US sub that went across the north pole, under the ice.

The keel for the first US nuclear sub was laid 60 years ago, this month. About 60 of the former crew were there, and some recounted their experiences on that sub.

A man who worked at 'Special Projects at Westinghouse was given the job of designing the reactor controls. he talked about the team of 20 engineers working around the clock to complete the design in time to have the parts made for the sub. He said it was one of their first solid state designs. Can you imagine building a fail-safe control system for a nuclear reactor with early germanium transistors?

Also, the local submariners group displayed a 1/13 scale steel model of the Nautilus that took two years to build. The main body was an obsolete aircraft fuel tank, and everything was scaled to fit.

I didn't feel well enough to take my camera with me, so I'll have to get a photo the next time I go.

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Michael A. Terrell
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The USS Nautilus is a museum up this way:

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And the area around it has several other good museums, from memory so maybe incomplete.

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Not as closely grouped, but interesting.

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jsw

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Jim Wilkins

A couple of the visitors were from your area, and talked about visiting the Nautilus. :)

Thanks, but I'll have to wait till I get a better computer to do much browsing. I lost another computer today, the second to die in alittle over two weeks. This will go on line, but is slow and has less than 2 GB of RAM so it took over 15 minutes to boot. It's the system I retired when I bought the dell that dies two weeks ago.

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Michael A. Terrell

I'm lucky to have the USS Cod here in town. I've been on-board many times and it seems so tiny, far too tiny to have 153 men on board for weeks after the Cod rescued the crew from another sub. Can you imagine the smell?

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Tom Gardner

They may have been on limited rations for a while, as well. The extra crew and food would have made that sub a whale, with the extra mass.

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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

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Michael A. Terrell

A couple of years ago, we went to the USS Alabama museum in Mobile, AL. The USS Drum (SS-228) was quite an interesting and unexpected addition.

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krw

Was that the one in Bob Newhart's monologue?

Submarine Captain: "I think the problem is: You guys haven't been coming to me with your problems. The door to my cabin is always open. That was stolen, I'd like that back, too."

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Fred Abse

Last March I worked an amateur radio station on the submarine USS Batfish. It is in Nebraska, I think, in a museum. The rest of the story is that we in Greensboro NC were operating a special events station (N3G) commemorating Cornwallis' victory over Nathael Greene at Guilford Courthouse. Cornwallis stated that one more victory like that and the war was lost. As it turned out, the British losses sustained there ultimately led to their losing the American Revolutionary War.

Our Radio Club set up for Field Day this weekend on the Battleground.

John Ferrell W8CCW

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John Ferrell

NK3ST is on the Torsk in Baltimore. I helped to restore the 1MC amplifiers. They were made by RCA and used 807 outputs 2x2 PP for 100 watts. The salt water air does a number on the electronics. Had to get replacement 807s from Russia.

I have great respect for those who were on the diesel boats.

tm

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tm

"tm" fired this volley in news:js82h4$ml8$1 @dont-email.me:

I spent a training period on the USS Redfin. "Conventional" sewer pipe.

LLoyd

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Lloyd E. Sponenburgh

Actually... Might not have been "USS"... but it was the Redfin.

I think they called boats by something different than USS... but it was

1969...

LLoyd

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Lloyd E. Sponenburgh

What's your OS? Vista? Two GB should work fine, in most computers.

You should run a registry repair, and some of the other system things.

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Thanks, but I'll have to wait till I get a better computer to do much browsing. I lost another computer today, the second to die in alittle over two weeks. This will go on line, but is slow and has less than 2 GB of RAM so it took over 15 minutes to boot. It's the system I retired when I bought the dell that dies two weeks ago.

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Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

http://www.flickr.com/photos/materrell/
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Stormin Mormon

The Greek general he was quoting:

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jsw

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Jim Wilkins

Yes, it is USS Redfin. It is also SS-272.

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tm

No offense, but I work on a lot of computers and I know the tricks. Thi= s is XP, with a 1.8 GHz processor. Part of the 2 GB of RAM is used for vid= eo. I've uninstalled every program I don't need, but all of the patches fr= om Microsoft has slowed it to a crawl. I use Revo Uninstaller to remove pr= ograms. It removes all traces of a program from the registry. I got this c= omputer refurbished from the OEM, with a clean install of XP.

Now, Earthlink's portal to Giganews is down, and has been since this mor= ning. What a PITA.

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terrell.michael.a

!.8GHz processor and 2GB ram. XP works much better than you're describing with lower resources than that (like 512MB ram + video ram). I would be looking at anti-virus or something else as the culprit. It's not a matter of resources.

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David Eather

If it is running an AV app, THAT is why it is slow.

The modern AV programs were not meant for older machines, because they TAKE half of your clock cycles for "real time" protection.

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WoolyBully

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I like the clothes line scene, among others.

The radio man becoming a "live conductor" to power the transmitter scene was pretty funny too. Best Sinatra impersonation I've heard in a long time too.

Nice Diesel piece of history parked up near where I used to live in Stamford too.

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BubbleSorter

"SS" is the prefix for a diesel-electric submarine. SSN would be a nuke-powered attack sub, and SSBN is a "boomer".

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krw

No offense, but I work on a lot of computers and I know the tricks. This is XP, with a 1.8 GHz processor. Part of the 2 GB of RAM is used for video. I've uninstalled every program I don't need, but all of the patches from Microsoft has slowed it to a crawl. I use Revo Uninstaller to remove programs. It removes all traces of a program from the registry. I got this computer refurbished from the OEM, with a clean install of XP.

Now, Earthlink's portal to Giganews is down, and has been since this morning. What a PITA.

------------------------------------------- Has your system DMA shifted to PIO mode?

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Art

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Artemus

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