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Thanks, this makes sense, and I can find and induce or avoid the problem by either having a page rotated or not; the effect is near instant. The simplest solution then is to cope with all but the wildest of image rotations. For information, I am running 8Gb of RAM which I would have liked to think w...

I have just given up transcribing out of sheer frustration with Calc because today it is having one of its go-slow episodes. Most times I can load Calc and rattle through a page of (typed) weather data pretty quickly. I work by column and change cells using the arrow keys. On a good day I add data t...

Hi Randi, Another quick question on slightly general detail this time. 7 Feb. 1947, events page (image 17), the first entry starts: Underway enroute from ... to ... as do most pages. The same sentence carries on with: working southwesterly Ross Sea loose ice pack. Given that ice and a general locati...

Can I claim February 1947. Or at least I will when the National Archives Catalog server is back up and running; this is unreachable every day to us in the UK in the morning but comes back online when the US gets up for breakfast.

(S)Nick

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Nick

Sorry, folks, another question. The science team has asked us to transcribe both Water Main Injection and Sea Temp Surf. The input wizard, however, only appears to want sea surface temperatures. Surface temperatures are recorded for 17 and 18 January 1947 but thereafter only Sea from (in point) is t...

Thanks, both, I'll go with 16 (it's a very long time since I used a mechanical typewriter but I do remember that they were not that reliable, and there's no backspace key). I did look at the surrounding columns to maybe guide me on the best guess answer but I'm still very much a novice here, so than...

I have another question... Although this is a typed log, I am looking at a column with one digit over-typed with another and it is not obvious which is the correct entry -- how to proceed? See page 25 , Ceiling column, 0200 to 0600 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7794818 0700 is also over-typed but ...

As a newcomer, I have a transcription question. I am about to work on a couple of pages where the ship leaves its anchorage for a few hours and steams about on exercises such as multiple runs on a measured mile, but without specified locations or bearings, and then returns to the original anchorage;...

I am claiming January 1947 as my first attempt on/at Old Weather - let's see how it goes. As a sometime cartographer and GIS user I hope my interest will be sustained in something as simple as seeing the ship's track from port to wherever they end up.

Nick (Snick)