Misfits, Dad's Army Types et al...

Misfits, Dad's Army Types et al...

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Hainey

4,381 posts

199 months

Friday 21st July 2017
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I was in one of those that went off road once. It managed 30ft up a slight incline into a slippy, muddy field then sat there defeated, spinning its wheels.

I wasn't very impressed.

helix402

7,832 posts

181 months

Friday 21st July 2017
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Bet it didn't have fluorescent yellow tape stuck on the rear window.

egor110

16,818 posts

202 months

Friday 21st July 2017
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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 wink )

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'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

11,317 posts

99 months

Friday 21st July 2017
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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"

egor110

16,818 posts

202 months

Friday 21st July 2017
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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"
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'

SVX

2,182 posts

210 months

Friday 21st July 2017
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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"
Quite the opposite, both his colleague (at the station) and other folk who work on that particular line all seem to be in a standard uniform... Perhaps this is some sort of specialised Railway SAR team.

Henners

12,230 posts

193 months

Friday 21st July 2017
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SRS, like the SBS but on rails wink

Shakermaker

11,317 posts

99 months

Friday 21st July 2017
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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.

4x4Tyke

6,506 posts

131 months

Friday 21st July 2017
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Shamelessly stolen from the dashcam thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hupMKMWhgKY


idiotgap

2,112 posts

132 months

Friday 21st July 2017
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"Comms check"... Pah...

"Yes, I can hear you, Clem Fandango"

egor110

16,818 posts

202 months

Friday 21st July 2017
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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.
See i always though a walt was somebody who pretends to be something there not , like the 4x4 men boys pretending to be a 4th emergency service , not somebody actually getting paid to do that job.

Hainey

4,381 posts

199 months

Friday 21st July 2017
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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.
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?!' hehe

Triumph Man

8,670 posts

167 months

Friday 21st July 2017
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PorkInsider said:
I'm wondering the same thing. confused
TO protect them from probably the majority of the membership...

Drive Blind

5,076 posts

176 months

Friday 21st July 2017
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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.

Are you in the RRR?
what
The ArArAr?

kowalski655

14,599 posts

142 months

Friday 21st July 2017
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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.
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?!' hehe
I doubt matey was firing up a nuclear reactor! Unless Virgin Trains have got some VERY interesting new stocksmile

Hainey

4,381 posts

199 months

Friday 21st July 2017
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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.
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?!' hehe
I doubt matey was firing up a nuclear reactor! Unless Virgin Trains have got some VERY interesting new stocksmile
Actually, to go full circle the nukes I served on used the same diesel engines for back up power as the old diesel electric locomotives from the 60s and 70s used as primary propulsion. Paxman diesels.

Small world and all that.

Europa1

10,923 posts

187 months

Monday 31st July 2017
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I spotted a classic in Stevenage the other day: grey Ford C-Max with the rear Ford oval badge replaced with "Dog Patrol", and a flourescent sign on the tailgate reading "Working Dogs in Transit". Presumably they had a different sign for transporting broken dogs.

matchmaker

8,463 posts

199 months

Monday 31st July 2017
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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).

Rude-boy

22,227 posts

232 months

Monday 31st July 2017
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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?!' hehe
This, ish.

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 tongue out

SpamCan

5,026 posts

217 months

Monday 31st July 2017
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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).