[R-390] Flying with boatanchors

[Ed Zeranski]

Subject: Re: [R-390] Flying with boatanchors
> Well back in the 1960's I flew with a Teletype Model 15 as checked
> baggage. >

I fly a lot, 100K++ a year, with communications gear, test equipment, parts,
etc. and generally have no problem. Carry-on is a different trip all
together. TSA didn't know what to think of a pattern generator/bit error
rate tester because it wasn't a computer. They asked what it did and I
finally told them it counted mistakes and I made so many I couldn't keep
track without 'this box'. Another stopper was my SpeedX in my carry-on bag
going through National Airport in DC. The kid put on plastic gloves then
picked the key up by the cable, like a dead rat by the tail, and asked "What
it be" ( Yep, that is a quote) One time I was flying from SEATAC to San
Diego after a job finished and I'd bought an NOS TCS-12 receiver from
Electronic Dimensions. The security folks(kids) did not know what the tubes
were and pulled me into 'secondary' because they did not believe what I had
was only a radio.

EdZ