[GreenKeys] Fools' Errands (was Bidding Mystery)

[Jim Haynes]

On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Randy and Sherry Guttery wrote:

> Jim Haynes wrote:
>       That reminds me of the old military fools' errand, where the
>       newbies
> 
> were given the job of separating the pink chad from the yellow chad,
> because the pink chad comes from classified messages.
> 
> 
> Our favorite one was to bounce some newbie back and forth between us (Nav
> ETs) and the Ops ETs (Radio / RADAR ETs).  It'd go something like this...
> 
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I still am waiting for the chance to tell some new ham (or shortwave
listener, or scanner buff) to go to Radio Shack and ask for an 
isotropic antenna.