radiochaser

Off topic post! I don't think so, I could be wrong though. It is a Quartz C cell battery powered clock. If it was in the large conference room at the end of the building on the 2nd floor at coords 42 32 53.7 x -71 36 37.4, then this is the clock. In the 60's I think that clocks that looked like this were plug in only. I think that back in the early 70's they were plug in only. This clock may have been an INSCOM clock. The exterior has not aged well and it appears to have been dropped and a piece of the brown surround broken off. Other than that, it is the most accurate clock in the house, even if I only use AA batteries with it rather than a C cell. Checking google earth I see that windows facing the streets are now boarded up and there are fences blocking access. I, rescued, the clock back in 2013 about a week after returning to the U.S. of A. from my 5 weeks in Thailand.

Off topic question. What you posted is interesting. Were those aeronautical en route ground stations you worked with?

Do you mean, ever bother to run again? I think her support dropped down to 2% of the democrat voters. I wonder how much of the democrat voter support she has now? Kamala Harris’s decline in the polls, explained Data suggests some of her supporters have migrated to candidates who were previously their second choice. After a blockbuster debate performance in June, Sen. Kamala Harris shot up in the national polls, peaking at 15 percent voter support. Cut to five months later, and she’s announced her decision to drop out, after polling in the single digits. https://www.vox.com/2019/11/20/20953284/kamala-harris-polls-2020-election

I have a battery powered wall clock that used to belong to the Army Security Agency at Fort Devens, MA. It had the letter Z stuck to the face of it. I used to work with a high frequency direction finding network. WWV and WWVH were two of our calibration DF targets. Depending on the time of day at the location of the DF station, one or the other WWV stations could not be heard due to propagation of the signal. Sometimes neither could be heard. If either station was in the Grayline, then some stations might get a false line of bearing on the station. Correction, that clock has Z 5 on it. Zulu plus 5 hours.

I could try that. But, would the other women accept that?

When I was in the Army, they called it Zulu time. Oh, and WWV or WWVH? 🤪

I wonder if any "netizens" complain about Thai men exposing their genitals in men's restrooms or openly masturbating in a men's restroom so that anyone entering cannot help but see it being done? Probably not. I think I need to learn how to navigate into and out of men's restrooms in Thailand with my eyes closed.

Whoo boy... All those ring tones just to get to the only other Morse code (that I heard) ring tone, the last one, for "CONNECTING PEOPLE" .

Now that I think about it. Here is some Morse code trivia, from Vietnam. But first, some info about . (dots) and _ (dashes). In the radio Morse world, a dot is correctly called a dit. A dash is called a dah. In the radio Morse net I used to operate in, some of the operators (OP/OPS), instead of ending a communications with dit dah, dit dah dit, which is AR (I don't know why AR was chosen to end communications) the OP would end communications with, dit dit. Those who knew what was going on would respond with, dah, the first OP would then send, dit. The second OP would a, dah, the first op would send a dit, the second OP would send dah, ending the communications. It would look like this (translated into English) dit dit = I, dah = T, dit = E, dah = T, dit = E, dah = T. Someone not knowing what was going on, but copying the Morse code from each of the individual ops, might copy the letters, I, T, E, T, E, T. But if only one op sent all the code, it would be copied as FTA, which means, F ... The Army! This might only be of interest to old Army Morse operators, or any one else that could copy code.

I had a Nokia a few years back. I called their tech support and asked why it was sending s m s in Morse code. The guy said it wasn't Morse code. I assured the tech that it was, that I had been a military trained Morse code operator able to send and receive Morse code. He still claimed it was not Morse code. OK, I said. Have a good day. I would still like to know what the notification was for as I never was able to find out. It would be interesting to know why it was chosen too.

I did an internet search for information about the Gofug Network and only found news articles about it being busted. What is/was the Gofug Network (aside from the obscene sound of the word).

Was Robert Gates wrong then? But one member of former President Barack Obama’s team who wasn’t too sure how Biden would handle foreign policy issues as Commander-in-Chief was Robert Gates, the former defense secretary. In a memoir, Gates alleged Biden had been "wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades." https://www.foxnews.com/politics/flashback-obama-defense-sec-biden-wrong-foreign-policy

Were you in Thailand and smoked Thai Stick in 1968 and afterwards? I was in Thailand in 1972/1973 and smoked it. But I don't know how it compares so current crops of Thai weed as I stopped smoking over 25 years ago. Not sure I could tell the difference today. Thai stick was better than what was sold in Vietnam and much better than what was being sold in the U.S. of A. from 1973 - 1983 or so. A friend bought some weed that he was told was Thai, I smelled it and smoked some and told him it was Mexican weed. Then one day he buys some from a good source who claimed it was Thai Stick. It was shorter sticks than what I was used to in the Udon Thani area, but it was real Thai weed. That was about 1975 or 1976. My friend said it was the best weed he ever smoked. I like Mocha coffee, because it has chocolate in it.

This looks like the exact one in your post, only 71 euros https://www.ubuy.co.nl/en/product/4DHTLGWGW-boundless-voyage-titanium-kettle-kettle-3-3-fl-oz-1-l-teapot-all-titanium-direct-fire-compatible-campfire-outdoor-camping-equipment-kettle

From amazon UK. A lot cheaper than 76,000 baht. What currency is that 2000? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Boundless-Voyage-Titanium-Capacity-Stovetop/dp/B0B9XW4ZV5?th=1

How long was your one way trip between the cities? I am assuming you mean bicycle when you write bike.

I hear that is happening in New York City. Only they aren't Thai and they aren't tourists. Undocumented immigrants the progressive left calls them.

I am curious. Were you there back then?

Yes and seeing some videos of BASE jumpers, I am very happy about that!

This bing dot com search did fine more references to Vietnam military going to Pattya in the 1960's https://www.bing.com/search?q=Vietnam+troops+R%26R+in+Pattya+Thailand&form=QBLH&sp=-1&ghc=1&lq=0&pq=vietnam+troops+r%26r+in+pattya+thailand&sc=11-37&qs=n&sk=&cvid=7D78EECED23443E2ACCC2A3DAFC04E6F&ghsh=0&ghacc=0&ghpl=

I just found this on wikipedia.. But, it is wikipedia! Pattaya Beach in Thailand was a fishing village until the 1960s when thousands of U.S. troops from Vietnam showed up for R&R, leading to the creation of one of the largest red light districts in the world. The heart of its economy remains sex tourism. Soldiers sometimes called the breaks "I&I" for "intoxication and intercourse".[8] The 1973 novel Saint Jack and its 1979 film adaptation revolve around the American GIs who came to Singapore during the Vietnam War on R&R for the prostitution that was prevalent in the city-state at the time.[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%26R_(military)

We can't fish a little more?

I tried to edit my post with the following but was unable to. Edited: having re read your post I will partially agree. Most R&R folks probably would not go to Pattaya on R&R. I know that There were some who had been assigned to the 7th, PCS'ed to Vietnam and went on R&R back to Thailand to visit their friends at the 7th and in Udon Thanii. I don't know if any went down to Pattya during R&R. We had personnel TDY back and forth from Vietnam and Thailand, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Europe, etc as some MOS's had a small number of personnel in them. I was a 05D and there were only about 550 of us stationed in various countries. During my time at the 8th RRFS at Phu Bai, VN, we were supposed to have 24 personnel working rotating 8 hour shifts. At one point in time, the day shift (12 noon to 12 midnight) had 3! A SP4 who was assigned to the RDF site at Chiang Mai was TDY'ed to work on my shift for a couple of months.

They were not on R&R. Almost all the personnel assigned to the 7th at Ramuson station were on permanent assignment with some there on TDY. At the time I was there, we had RDF sites at other places in Thailand as well and they may have also traveled to different places in Thailand, as I did. All personnel that went to Pattaya were on regular leave as I was when I traveled to Khan Kean (sp?). R&R in Thailand was for those military personnel that were assigned permanent stations in Vietnam. Like I was and later PCSed to Thailand.

During my time there from 9/72 -5/73. If there are any web site links on the internet about 7th RRFS personnel going there, I have not found them or did and forgot about it. I think there may be some youtube posts about being down there. in the late 1960's up until the 7th closed in 1975 or 1976.. Personal experience of guys telling me or I overhearing them talking about going to Pattya. Fishing and being on the beach I believe were the primary reason. Some of them went down there with their tilaks. There were guys that were stationed at the 7th at least three years and one or two that may have been there 4 or more years. Then there were guys that managed to be hired to work for the business' that were working for the U.S. government. Federal Electric, CIA, NSA civilians, (as opposed to the NSA military grunts). OK, this is the first time I have seen this. But I don't know if anyone from Radio Research was with them. In 1959, I think all RR personel were working out of Bangkok. There was a Radio Direction Finding (RDF) antenna array on top of a hotel in Bankok, There may have been some RDF sites someplace in Thailand but I can't remember if there was. I was going to post a link then realized it was from the B. Post. Do a search with bing dot com with this term .. did Radio Research have anyone stationed at Pattay, Thailand?