[Drake] Trials and tribulations

[James Barrie]

ANSWER #1:

Saint Vidicon of Cathode is a fictional saint created by author 
Christopher Stasheff in his Warlock of Gramarye series of novels and 
features prominently in his novel Saint Vidicon to the Rescue.
Father Vidicon was a Jesuit priest who worked as technician at the 
Vatican television station. He was martyred in 2020 during a vital 
broadcast by the Pope during a time of political unrest that threatened 
the very existence of the Catholic church. After multiple failures of a 
high power resistor during the broadcast, Vidicon notes that the 
electrical resistance of the component is nearly identical to that of a 
human body and grabs the leads, keeping the station on the air at the 
cost of his own electrocution. Vidicon is declared a martyr and becomes 
the patron saint of technicians and engineers.

isn't WIKIPEDIA  GREAT ????

OR  ANSWER #2:

It was a new ( in 1970) drug to deal with high blood pressure. It 
failed to catch on with the medical community  and the drug company who 
developed it shortly there after changed their business model to 
produce high performance car mufflers for the Chevrolet Vega. They also 
produced a high end Two  Meter CW only transceiver to to fill a 
perceived market in 2M, CW only repeaters.

Do I win a TR-7?
back to DX'ing on 20 ....
73
Jim WA8SDF