[MRCG] BC 645 story...

[Ralph Simpson]

Interesting stories.

I believe this method of enlisting people in the service was standard for
many years. My father was in WW2 and one of his good buddies was a guy
named Henley, who was let out of prison for 2nd degree murder to go off to
war. I was supposed to be named after him with my middle name, but my
father was away when I was born and the nurse didn't understand my Japanese
mothers accent, so my birth certificate says I am Henry. I guess it is just
as well that I am not named after a murderer.

Ralph Simpson
On Mar 4, 2014 5:24 PM, "Thomas Murphy" <tpmurphy at sonic.net> wrote:

>
>
>    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
>
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>
> 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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