[CW] Bugs on board ship

[David Ring]

During WX that we called "heaving green WX", even having the bug
positioned athwart ships didn't help much - and for some unknown
reason the Captain would come in the the monthly payroll message to
send.  Usually we'd be off Chile where the Pacific swells would cause
the ship to pitch  plowing the stem into the bottom of the wave and
sending masses of water and spume crashing over the wheelhouse which
was six
decks above the main deck.

When the ship pitched like that the pendulum of the bug would swing
like my stomach - and make long dashes - or light ones!

I found the cootie key was the perfect higher speed key then!

73

David J. Ring, Jr., N1EA
Radio Officer, US Merchant Marine (Ret.)




On 6/25/07, K0HB < k-zero-hb at earthlink.net> wrote:
>  The period of the rolls (except in most extreme circumstances) is too long
> to have any noticeable effect on a mass as small as the pendulum on a bug.
> Add to that the fact that most operating positions were situated such that
> the operator faced athwartships, lessening further any effect of rolling.
>
> 73,
> de Hans, K0HB
> Master Chief Radioman, US Navy
> --
>  ><{{{{*>    http://www.home.earthlink.net/~k0hb
>
> >
> > Assuming they were used at sea, what effect did the motion of the
> > vessel have on the swinging pendulum that forms the dots? I'd have
> > thought it would be difficult to prevent the arm swinging in time with
> > the rolling and pitching of the ship?
> >
>
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