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I remember the sweet Fun we had together with the new galleries, a few years it was, and miss very much.
I come back and read and enjoy and am happy they exist.
I very good job done indeed. Thank You so much, Mr. M.
Bless! may You always be well.

I'm just hoping Motts is taking an extended time out and it's not something worse.

I wonder if the crematorium was never built in light of what happened with them during WWII.

My shoe! That's where I left it...been looking for it for a year now...eh, shit, I think I just threw away the other one last week. Dammit.

And this just looks like something out of a Terry Gilliam film

I'm an artist, but I don't know much about photography. I just know a good picture when I see one. I don't know what kind of lens you use, but the angles of this picture is so beautifully bazaar! All the diagonals in perspective makes it amazingly unsettling! You manage to make the viewer slightly dizzy with a still shot.

Either that, or I'm drunk...Great pic, once again Motts!

Adam Sandler - "Her name is going to be Julia Gulia?"

That's a very nice video, Iceberg. If I'm not mistaken, it was made by the same team that's working on The Halcyon Project documentary. I can't wait for that to finally come out. There's also an opera about Bennett in the works. That was supposed to premiere about a year ago, but COVID threw a wrench in everyone's live entertainment plans. I'm not sure when the new premiere date is.

Pat, that 3D model of Halcyon sounds like a great idea, and I'd love to see it when you finish. I'm glad you liked the colorized photos. I should have an update coming to that album before too long, as I've found a lot more pictures, among other things. More recently, however, I've been helping the Bennett Swans find and digitize their old albums. So far, we've managed to get three out of the six of them.

https://soundcloud.com.../bennett-black-swans
https://soundcloud.com...sets/show-us-the-way
https://soundcloud.com...3/sets/all-that-jazz

It is a HP 691A, 692A, 693A or 694A Microwave Sweep oscillator with the -01 option. It is from the mid '60s. A manual is online, for this series. They use a Back Wave Oscillator as the RF source.

Frequency Ranges:
691A: 1 to 2 GHz
692A: 2 to 4 GHz
693A: 4 to 8 GHz
694A: 8 to 12.4GHz
The -01 option - Sweep Oscillators are equipped internally to provide automatically leveled RF output, and are distinguishable from standard Sweep Oscillator by the label INT ALC on the pushbutton under the POWER LEVEL control.
Option 01 Oscillators have precision type N RF output connectors which are intended for use with standard type N connectors (e.g., UG-21 D/U) only. CAUTION: DO NOT COUPLE TWO PRECISION CONNECTORS. The male connector center conductor has larger diameter than the center conductor receptacle in the female connector. Consequently, coupling precision connectors can cause severe connector damage.

Those labeled indicators look like they were made by Master Specialties. They were build as lighted displays that took up to four #327 or #328 lamps. Thy supplied thin, colored silicone rubber covers to color code the signal. Several types of snap on switch modules were available, as well. I first saw these at the now gone Bethany VOA facility, near Cincinnati, Ohio in the late '60s when a new control room was being built. There were well over 500 of them, since that was the secondary Master Control site for all of the VOA radio stations. It was a full time job to walk around, push the indicator to test all four lamps, and replace any that were bad. They used two of the same color, in opposite corners. That reduced the chances of missing a problem, due to bad lamps. That site was closed, years ago. A small part is now a museum but all the antennas and towers were removed to build a golf course.
A couple years later I was an Engineer for an Army AFRTS Radio & TV station. I think that I still have one new indicator and switch in my workshop.

I live in Buffalo, and I've always wanted to see more of this building. Amazing! I've shared your albums with friends.

So what are the tracks for, 17 years later?

I did chaplaincy training one summer there. I lived in the dorms and watched Red Sox baseball with Joe and his girlfriend. On weekends, I ate in the cafeteria with the clients. I played basketball and went into Westboro for a beer on Thursday nights. I remember some of the patients and staff well. We should have a reunion!

...did you say you were amazed a refrigeration unit of this size didn't get thrown out the window? or a mortuary table which was probably bolted to the floor? what is with urbex people being so stupid.

what the hell is wrong with you

wonderful how well put together thanx