[R-390] Nolan Lee's 1998 EAC overhaul narrative

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Don Reaves <donreaves at gmail.com> wrote:

> What FAQ?  There isn't one officially attached to the R-390 mailing list.
> No need, because there is the excellent independent one at r-390a.net.
> (hat tip to Al and contributors)
> Some of Nolan's highlights are there, including a nicely formatted
> HTML version of the overhaul post and a link to his web page archives.
>

I think I forwarded his 'Flight of the Phoenix' post some years back, about
the receiver he dug out of his scorching hot attic filled with mud dauber
nets. I found that Nolan's posts were almost always as entertaining as they
were educational.


> I'd like to revisit Nolan's story about dressing out a deer in a New
> Orleans apartment parking lot (certainly OT)
> and snag a copy of his prophetic email tag line poking fun at Tempest
> internet "alert words".
>

Don't recall that one, but do recall one about a sheep in a shopping center
parking lot while his wife was shopping or getting her hair done.

Yep, the Tempest/Carnivore key words were a hoot. I recall he had 'AK-47'
in there somewhere. Echelon was such a big, scary thing then with its
4B/day capabilities. Probably comparable to a Commodore 64 next to the new
system. (o:

Rich McClung posted several years back that Nolan had suffered a stroke and
didn't recall or care about any of the radio stuff. Someone later posted
that he had died, though I don't recall that ever being confirmed. I've got
his pages saved somewhere just in case they got shut down at some point.
Apparently others do as well.

I liked his Bomb Squad signature too, and his response to someone once
about Amperex Bugle Boy tubes. He said something about shooting them with a
.22 cal for target practice rather than stick them on ebay. When one of the
new age experts suggested he could sell them for a lot of money to
'audiophiles' his response was something like "I'd rather gouge out my left
eye with a rusty tire iron found on the floor or a New Orleans crack house".

Definitely a piece of work, that boy.... :D

de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ/4