TDC, PK, manual targeting, corrections.

Sniper297 · 04-15-15, 09:52 AM

I had no end of irritation with imageshack and photobucket, so I gave up and made a couple of "shared with public" facebook albums for pictures. Possibly it's on my end, does anyone see the picture in post #4 (my second post in this thread where it says "Here's the only picture I can find of the WWII sub plotter table" )?

Two ways to do this, copy image, paste image right into the editor window;

Or copy URL and paste into the Insert Image tool window;

And it works, but when I look again a few weeks or months later the image is gone, no link, no evidence it was ever there. I don't have this problem on other forums.

les green01 · 04-15-15, 01:12 PM

i dont see a pic in post 4

Pisces · 04-15-15, 04:08 PM

I've never heard of being able to insert images into a post by copy/pasting it on Subism.com. It always needs to be uploaded to a online location, and linked to it by url. And added into a post by using the [img][/ img] tags (there is a button in the full editor for it). Or by using the "Manage attachments" button in the full editor, and upload it to the site via a pop-up window.

Sniper297 · 04-15-15, 11:06 PM

Doesn't matter how I do it, the pictures are there, I log out and disconnect from the internet, reconnect and look again, still there. Go back a few weeks or months later and they're gone without a trace. I recently edited this thread;

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=211613

to replace the two images that were missing, they were there on March 1st and missing by March 24th. This is the first time I've had images vanish on the same day, but however I add images there's something screwy going on more often than not.

TorpX · 04-15-15, 11:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sniper297

Possibly it's on my end, does anyone see the picture in post #4 (my second post in this thread where it says "Here's the only picture I can find of the WWII sub plotter table" )?

I never saw any pics in #4. I thought maybe the problem was at my end. Last week, there seemed to be a lot if images missing for me.

*I think*, the plotting tables they used, had a light tracer move underneath the paper, but the crew actually penciled in the tracks. The tracer corresponded to the sub's position; they still had to rely on periscope/TBT/Radar data furnished by others for marking the track of target(s). I can't remember where I read this, though.

I skimmed through the TDC manual at HNSA.org. There is certainly a 'distance to track' dial or readout on the Mk. 3. They don't really give a good, close-up view of the dials, but it's there.

The don't really say much about the 'sound bearing converter', either.

Sniper297 · 04-16-15, 02:45 PM

Well, I don't know. The two pics I posted in #10 are still there, and naturally I can't find the one of the WWII fleet boat plotting table or remember the exact search term I used. Google is well named because that's the number of useless unrelated hits it returns.

One problem in finding photos - when I was in the Navy there were many restrictions on even the possession of a camera, and an AX had a lot of background checks and security clearances involved, "burn before reading" all that stuff. I got out in 1982, and was rather shocked to pick up my first Tom Clancy novel only a few years later revealing a lot of the classified info I knew when I was on active duty. Apparently it was declassified and I hadn't heard about it.

WWII was undoubtedly the same, all this stuff was probably so top secret there was very little in the way of documentation or photos available after it was declassified. Mark 14 with the Mark VI exploder was a good example, so secret that when the war started all the submariners tasked with maintaining, prepping, adjusting and firing the torpedoes were scratching their heads trying to figure out a new system nobody ever heard of with no manuals or training. SNAFU.

04-15-15, 01:12 PM	#2
les green01 Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Freeman Missouri Posts: 1,784 Downloads: 1405 Uploads: 0	i dont see a pic in post 4 __________________ I'll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done. Audie Murphy

04-15-15, 09:52 AM	#1
Sniper297 The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Philadelphia Shipyard Brig Posts: 1,386 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 19	I had no end of irritation with imageshack and photobucket, so I gave up and made a couple of "shared with public" facebook albums for pictures. Possibly it's on my end, does anyone see the picture in post #4 (my second post in this thread where it says "Here's the only picture I can find of the WWII sub plotter table" )? Two ways to do this, copy image, paste image right into the editor window; Or copy URL and paste into the Insert Image tool window; And it works, but when I look again a few weeks or months later the image is gone, no link, no evidence it was ever there. I don't have this problem on other forums.

04-15-15, 04:08 PM	#3
Pisces Silent Hunter Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: AN9771 Posts: 4,904 Downloads: 304 Uploads: 0	I've never heard of being able to insert images into a post by copy/pasting it on Subism.com. It always needs to be uploaded to a online location, and linked to it by url. And added into a post by using the [img][/ img] tags (there is a button in the full editor for it). Or by using the "Manage attachments" button in the full editor, and upload it to the site via a pop-up window.

04-15-15, 11:06 PM	#4
Sniper297 The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Philadelphia Shipyard Brig Posts: 1,386 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 19	Doesn't matter how I do it, the pictures are there, I log out and disconnect from the internet, reconnect and look again, still there. Go back a few weeks or months later and they're gone without a trace. I recently edited this thread; http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=211613 to replace the two images that were missing, they were there on March 1st and missing by March 24th. This is the first time I've had images vanish on the same day, but however I add images there's something screwy going on more often than not.

04-16-15, 02:45 PM	#6
Sniper297 The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Philadelphia Shipyard Brig Posts: 1,386 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 19	Well, I don't know. The two pics I posted in #10 are still there, and naturally I can't find the one of the WWII fleet boat plotting table or remember the exact search term I used. Google is well named because that's the number of useless unrelated hits it returns. One problem in finding photos - when I was in the Navy there were many restrictions on even the possession of a camera, and an AX had a lot of background checks and security clearances involved, "burn before reading" all that stuff. I got out in 1982, and was rather shocked to pick up my first Tom Clancy novel only a few years later revealing a lot of the classified info I knew when I was on active duty. Apparently it was declassified and I hadn't heard about it. WWII was undoubtedly the same, all this stuff was probably so top secret there was very little in the way of documentation or photos available after it was declassified. Mark 14 with the Mark VI exploder was a good example, so secret that when the war started all the submariners tasked with maintaining, prepping, adjusting and firing the torpedoes were scratching their heads trying to figure out a new system nobody ever heard of with no manuals or training. SNAFU.