[MRCG] BC 645 story...

[Thomas Murphy]

   Not just in the South, I grew up in a small town just south of Boston.
The end of my Junior year in high school, 1967,  four of the guys that
graduated that year went out and did some beer drinking one summer night.
They had been raising hell with the town cops for the past year, they rolled
their car over, luckily no one was hurt but the cops came by just after it
happened. The car was full of empty beer bottles, all were under age and
this was just what the cops were waiting for, payback!!

   They went to court, the judge told all four this would be all forgotten
if they enlisted in the service. The four of them went in the Air Force.



 
Tom Murphy, W6TOM

-----Original Message-----
From: mrcg-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:mrcg-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
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Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 9:39 PM
To: West Coast Military Radio Collectors Group
Subject: Re: [MRCG] BC 645 story...

To: West Coast Military Radio Collectors Group
Subject: Re: [MRCG] SCR-522 XTALS and other XTLA Questions


IFF was  a source  questioned.  My BC645 association..

Back in the early '60s when a lot of WWII equipment was cheap the BC-645 IFF
set got cobbled into Ham VHF/UHF use. I went into the service, Navy,  1964
boot camp then ET School, 52 week Electronic Technician school at Great
Lakes. In our ET school class there was a guy, 22 years old , older than
most of us, who never studied, drank heavily on weekends, but aced all the
tests and bedeviled the Navy instructors with technical questions. He was a
HAM who had studied engineering at College or University of the South but
got in trouble so had to join the service. His bad deed??  Dave got a ticket
from the Tennessee cops so swore revenge. Back then police radar was a box
on a tripod set up outside the car.  David bought a 645, modified it, built
a multi element yagi, then installed it all in a station wagon. He would
park it a hill or two past a Tennessee radar car then let it sit until the
radar triggered a response that ate the speed radar front end. He said he
harvested several before being caught and convicted where he had the choice
of jail or joining the service. From what I've read that sort of choice was
common back then, especially in the South.

EdZ KG6UTS 


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