Nerd, rescuer of cats and chickens, lover of sci, tech, astronomy, radio, sailing, cyberpunk, steampunk, retired game server admin, B Eng Comp Sys Hons 1, NYSF'99, Marine Rescue Watchofficer and IT&Comms Officer, Stf Software Eng.
Things I get up to:
* https://www.marinerescuensw.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Soundings_Winter_51.pdf#page=20 (page 20)
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@trib thank you. It came as a bit of a shock.
(For many years we were RFS Firecomm after-hours for Lower Hunter and Hunter Valley zones, still maintain ties with them after the responsibility was handed over to state ops. I think I've dispatched as many firecalls as I have rescues.)
Does anyone have experience with DIY T-coil setups? Do they even exist?
I'm thinking it would help those at the marine rescue base who had hearing aids to make radio ops more accessible.
My loving partner uses alarms on her phone where a countdown timer would be far more appropriate. Absolutely refuses to use the timer function - constantly asking the voice assistant to set an alarm for thirty minutes.
Yesterday she complained she couldn't set an alarm because the phone had reached the maximum limit of however many hundreds of alarms.
This drives the engineer in me nuts. Eye-twitching nuts.
@erkpod Yup, think we are in the same neck of the woods :)
Yeah, the phones would ring differently depending on if it was a MR routine call, a MR tasking, a RFS Firelines call or an RFS 'admin' call. General Quarters meant something with too much water, Fire engine meant something with not enough water :)
@erkpod now that's just cruel of the supervisor, setting you up!
For many years (until state ops took over recently) the marine rescue base was Firecom for two RFS zones. The zones would forward their firelines to us, and I had the phones set up to sound a fire engine siren for those lines so we knew not to answer with Marine Rescue but with RFS Firecom instead. There is some sort of macabre humour that all emergency operators understand, some of the phone calls with the F+R 000 operators were hilarious.
Not many of them knew we were also Marine Rescue and both RFS zones, so they would be occasionally surprised when an incident involved 'both' of us, or due to the base's prominent position on a headland we would see a fire in town and be the informant as well.
You definitely didn't want anyone to say the Q-word when you were up there by yourself on the nights.
