[Boatanchors] Ditty not Diddy

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Now there's a name (Jerry Freeman) that I recognize.  In the early 60's, he 
was in the New Orleans office.  During the Cuban missle crisis of 1962, he came 
into my dorm room at LSU and inspected the output of a T-23/ARC-5 I had up 
and running.  I had rewound the coils from one channel for 6 Meters and he found 
an 80-something MC harmonic he told me to fix.  But I wasn't the one he was 
looking for.  Seems some kid in South Stadium, with an FM broadcaster, had run 
a fake news show and reported that the Cubans had nuked a US carrier.

In a message dated 8/23/2007 8:52:29 AM Central Daylight Time, 
ebjr37 at charter.net writes: 
> I once had an FCC inspection to do on a ship in Mobile, AL. and Angelo 
> Ditty 
> came down and did the inspection.  He was quite a character.  Very friendly, 
> 
> but did things strictly by the book!
> 
> There was another guy (who's SK now) named Jerry Freeman.  Forget his 
> callsign.  He ran the Norfolk FCC office for a long time I think.  He used 
> to sit at a big desk wearing his badge and gun like the sheriff of old!  He 
> could be very picky about extremely small flaws in  an installation he was 
> inspecting.  He did show partiality at time though.  I gather Angelo did 
> not.  He seemed VERY straightforward and honest to me.
> 

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