[Milsurplus] BC 312? on eBay, in need of extreme TLC or a funeral

[mikea]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 08:14:22AM -1000, Michael Tauson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:21 AM, David Stinson<arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > What is it about these receivers that makes them so blasted heavy?
> 
> Ground-based equipment, including some pack sets, was equipped with a
> little known and highly secret device called a "gravity enhancer".
> The purpose was to allow the equipment to help ballast the various
> vehicles and buildings on/in which it was installed although the pack
> equipment got mixed in due to some over-enthusiastic engineers who
> didn't want to be left out in using the Good Stuff.  The gravity
> enhancers were based in a poor understanding of pre-Roswell alien
> counter gravity technology and were, at the time, considered a happy
> accident.  It wasn't realized until some time later that people had to
> be able to lift the equipment without getting a double hernia that
> some Bright Person decided they could be eliminated.
> 
> Okay, okay, I'll take my meds.  ;-D

WaitAMinnit! 

That means that if you turn your BC-312, packset, or other gravity-enhanced
rig, it will get _lighter_.

So we just need to learn to read umop apisdn, and laugh at the folks who
got caught by the Seekrit Weepon askect of the gear.

I took my meds, thanks very much, they're just not working yet. How can
I tell? I'm still awake. 

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin