[GreenKeys] Fools' Errands (was Bidding Mystery)

[Al Murray]

Yes Jim...I do remember that. we could not wait to pull that gag!!!
Al K9ZMA
Senior Radioman USN late 1960's We still KSR 28's, URA-8A's,
and tons of R390 receivers. Even a UCC-1 !

Jim Haynes wrote:
> 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...
>>
> ---
>
> 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.
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