Misfits, Dad's Army Types et al...
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SVX said:
I spotted a new type of walt this week whilst out and about. Train Walt.
He had eschewed his company issue dacron trousers and branded polyester shirt, in favour of knock off police riot gear:- Black combat boots and trousers, utility belt with many pouches and maglite. He was wearing his company Hi-Viz with the title "Train Dispatcher" on the back (I wonder if he thinks he needs a firearm )
He was also sporting a radio, and I heard him use the phrase "Comms Check", bearing in mind this a very small rural station with max two members of staff, and a contract cleaner. I can only imagine the radio chatter.
"Code Blue, repeat Code Blue in the Gents Toilet, the paper in trap one is reaching critical"
Made me chuckle and think of this thread.
Fake News !He had eschewed his company issue dacron trousers and branded polyester shirt, in favour of knock off police riot gear:- Black combat boots and trousers, utility belt with many pouches and maglite. He was wearing his company Hi-Viz with the title "Train Dispatcher" on the back (I wonder if he thinks he needs a firearm )
He was also sporting a radio, and I heard him use the phrase "Comms Check", bearing in mind this a very small rural station with max two members of staff, and a contract cleaner. I can only imagine the radio chatter.
"Code Blue, repeat Code Blue in the Gents Toilet, the paper in trap one is reaching critical"
Made me chuckle and think of this thread.
He's not a walt as he's not going to have a choice re uniform or the high viz plus it's his job.
Shakermaker said:
egor110 said:
Fake News !
He's not a walt as he's not going to have a choice re uniform or the high viz plus it's his job.
But he doesn't need to use the phrase "Comms Check" He's not a walt as he's not going to have a choice re uniform or the high viz plus it's his job.
Shakermaker said:
egor110 said:
Fake News !
He's not a walt as he's not going to have a choice re uniform or the high viz plus it's his job.
But he doesn't need to use the phrase "Comms Check" He's not a walt as he's not going to have a choice re uniform or the high viz plus it's his job.
egor110 said:
You've no idea what training the firm he's employed by have given him , it might be mandatory to say comms check rather than calling up the other channels and everyone going ' can you hear me'
I've never met anyone who has been trained to use the word "Comms check" and have only ever heard it used by Walts with radios (common at the airports I work at) or by actors on TV in Cop shows/special forces shows. It might be common practice in those organisations, but I havent worked in one. Plus as the OP says, there are only 2 other people working at this rural station. Definite Walt.
Shakermaker said:
egor110 said:
You've no idea what training the firm he's employed by have given him , it might be mandatory to say comms check rather than calling up the other channels and everyone going ' can you hear me'
I've never met anyone who has been trained to use the word "Comms check" and have only ever heard it used by Walts with radios (common at the airports I work at) or by actors on TV in Cop shows/special forces shows. It might be common practice in those organisations, but I havent worked in one. Plus as the OP says, there are only 2 other people working at this rural station. Definite Walt.
Shakermaker said:
egor110 said:
You've no idea what training the firm he's employed by have given him , it might be mandatory to say comms check rather than calling up the other channels and everyone going ' can you hear me'
I've never met anyone who has been trained to use the word "Comms check" and have only ever heard it used by Walts with radios (common at the airports I work at) or by actors on TV in Cop shows/special forces shows. It might be common practice in those organisations, but I havent worked in one. Plus as the OP says, there are only 2 other people working at this rural station. Definite Walt.
It was part of the SOP as laid down by PAG Fas Lane before you started discharging from the primary loops to the PE Tank on the aft casing when your warming up the reactor. You made sure your ICOM and the one in manoeuvring worked wirh the guy releasing the pressure.
Next time I used it was my next career of commercial aviation when your establishing strength and readability of signal with ground.
Never used it outside of those though when 4x4ing up in the hills though! Then it's usually 'hoi, tt, you listening?!'
ClaphamGT3 said:
Think it's safe to say that there's going to be some quality Waltage going on with this lot;
https://www.rrr.co.uk/?page=officialsandofficers
You're going to sound either like a pirate or somebody pretending to be a lion at any gatherings.https://www.rrr.co.uk/?page=officialsandofficers
Are you in the RRR?
what
The ArArAr?
Hainey said:
Shakermaker said:
egor110 said:
You've no idea what training the firm he's employed by have given him , it might be mandatory to say comms check rather than calling up the other channels and everyone going ' can you hear me'
I've never met anyone who has been trained to use the word "Comms check" and have only ever heard it used by Walts with radios (common at the airports I work at) or by actors on TV in Cop shows/special forces shows. It might be common practice in those organisations, but I havent worked in one. Plus as the OP says, there are only 2 other people working at this rural station. Definite Walt.
It was part of the SOP as laid down by PAG Fas Lane before you started discharging from the primary loops to the PE Tank on the aft casing when your warming up the reactor. You made sure your ICOM and the one in manoeuvring worked wirh the guy releasing the pressure.
Next time I used it was my next career of commercial aviation when your establishing strength and readability of signal with ground.
Never used it outside of those though when 4x4ing up in the hills though! Then it's usually 'hoi, tt, you listening?!'
kowalski655 said:
Hainey said:
Shakermaker said:
egor110 said:
You've no idea what training the firm he's employed by have given him , it might be mandatory to say comms check rather than calling up the other channels and everyone going ' can you hear me'
I've never met anyone who has been trained to use the word "Comms check" and have only ever heard it used by Walts with radios (common at the airports I work at) or by actors on TV in Cop shows/special forces shows. It might be common practice in those organisations, but I havent worked in one. Plus as the OP says, there are only 2 other people working at this rural station. Definite Walt.
It was part of the SOP as laid down by PAG Fas Lane before you started discharging from the primary loops to the PE Tank on the aft casing when your warming up the reactor. You made sure your ICOM and the one in manoeuvring worked wirh the guy releasing the pressure.
Next time I used it was my next career of commercial aviation when your establishing strength and readability of signal with ground.
Never used it outside of those though when 4x4ing up in the hills though! Then it's usually 'hoi, tt, you listening?!'
Small world and all that.
Hainey said:
I've used comms check before.
It was part of the SOP as laid down by PAG Fas Lane before you started discharging from the primary loops to the PE Tank on the aft casing when your warming up the reactor. You made sure your ICOM and the one in manoeuvring worked wirh the guy releasing the pressure.
Next time I used it was my next career of commercial aviation when your establishing strength and readability of signal with ground.
Never used it outside of those though when 4x4ing up in the hills though! Then it's usually 'hoi, tt, you listening?!'
This, ish.It was part of the SOP as laid down by PAG Fas Lane before you started discharging from the primary loops to the PE Tank on the aft casing when your warming up the reactor. You made sure your ICOM and the one in manoeuvring worked wirh the guy releasing the pressure.
Next time I used it was my next career of commercial aviation when your establishing strength and readability of signal with ground.
Never used it outside of those though when 4x4ing up in the hills though! Then it's usually 'hoi, tt, you listening?!'
Weekend work use radios all the time and once you have got to yours, put it on and got your headset on it is the done thing to check that base can hear you and you them.
"Rude-boy on 9 all set up and in position, comms check please" or something like that is almost always the case.
On the other hand if travelling back and wanting to radio the other van in front to sort out food stops or similar opening salutations and conformations as to reception of transmissions might just be a little less formal
matchmaker said:
Comms check? bks talk. When I was a radio operator with HM Coastguard the phrase was "radio check" and we carried this out every Sunday morning with our mobile teams and offshore lighthouses (including the wonderfully named Muckle Flugga).
Same in aviation (names and registrations changed to protect the innocent/infamous):Aircraft: Grass Field Radio, G-ABCD, request radio check and airfield information.
Grass Field Radio: G-ABCD, readability five, using runway two three right hand, surface wind two four zero ten knots, QNH one zero one six.
The response will be on a scale of one to five depending on whether its completely unintelligible (one) or crystal clear (five).
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