[GreenKeys] Hello and Where to find PC to RTTY Interface?

[Randy and Sherry Guttery]

On 2/1/2011 7:57 PM, Don Robert House wrote:
> You are gonna get all the newbies upset and confused.
> Like sending a new sailor for a hundred yards of shoreline.
>
I'll trade ya' a box of range rings for a ship's head 
marker...  and I'll throw in a can of relative bearing 
grease for good measure!

Sailors can be irreverent...    Then again - take some 
history from the U.S.S. Constitution...

The U.S.S. Constitution (Old Ironsides), as a combat vessel, 
carried 48,600 gallons of fresh water for her crew of 475 
officers and men. This was sufficient to last six months of 
sustained operations at sea. She carried no evaporators 
(I.e. Fresh water distillers). However, let it be noted that 
according to her ship's log,

"On July 27, 1798, the U.S.S.Constitution sailed from Boston 
with a full complement of 475 officers and men, 48,600 
gallons of fresh water, 7,400 cannon shot, 11,600 pounds of 
black powder and 79,400 gallons of rum.."

Her mission: "To destroy and harass English shipping."

Making Jamaica on 6 October, she took on 826 pounds of flour 
and 68,300 gallons of rum.  Then she headed for the Azores, 
arriving there 12 November. She provisioned with 550 pounds 
of beef and 64,300 gallons of Portuguese wine..  On 18 
November, she set sail for England. In the ensuing days she 
defeated five British men-of-war and captured and scuttled 
12 English merchant ships, salvaging only the rum aboard 
each.  By 26 January, her powder and shot were exhausted. 
Nevertheless, although unarmed she made a night raid up the 
Firth of Clyde in Scotland. Her landing party captured a 
whiskey distillery and transferred 40,000 gallons of single 
malt Scotch aboard by dawn. Then she headed home.  The 
U.S.S. Constitution arrived in Boston on 20 February 1799, 
with no cannon shot, no food, no powder, no rum, no wine, no 
whiskey, and 38,600 gallons of water..

See - we might be irreverent - but sailors are good at 
keeping their "priorities" straight...

just my .02 - and worth every bit of it!

-- 
randy guttery

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