[R-390] Flying with boatanchors

[Cecil Acuff]

Sounds like TSA recruits from Radio Shack!

Cecil...
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Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [R-390] Flying with boatanchors


>
> That is part of the dumbing down of America..........."what it
> be"............still laughing!!!
>
> Les Locklear
>
>
> In a message dated 4/15/2005 9:23:50 AM Central Daylight Time,
> ezeran at ezeran.cnc.net writes:
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
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