MILITARY COLLECTOR GROUP POST, Jan.10/98 INDEX: PRC-64; Project Close Group Want's & Trade's; Next Series Ideas; HUMOR; *********************************************** PRC-64; Project Close Good news, at long last the PRC-64 project is at a close. All the sets have been boxed up & are ready to go out. Bad News, In one of my several Juno, or computer crashes I lost the list of those that purchased them. So everyone that has a PRC-64 coming send me your shipping address. Thanks to all those that have been so patient. Dennis *********************************************** Group Want's & Trade's; An updated Group Want's & Trade's will go out Sunday Morning, Jan.11. Be sure yours is in by no later than Saturday night to be included. Dennis *********************************************** Next Series Ideas; Have in mind for the next series, "Genealogy of a Direction Finder"(ground type), starting with early WW-II sets, a progressing to the late 80's. Any other ideas or input? John Mackesy has an article on the 618T in the works, I'll be most anxious to see it. Nick Broline has been working for some time on an article documenting the migration from AM/MF to FM/UHF dating from pre WW-II to present, this should answer a lot of questions for you all. And Steve Hill has been working on one about the Austrian A510, a most interesting early 1950's little HF pack set(I'm gonna have me one someday). Dave Stinson is working on a long awaited article featuring the Command sets, I can think of no other person more qualified to write one. How about an article describing the numerous receivers used with the ART-13, some designed expressly for it, others not. But it outlived many! Anybody game? Information on the next "MYSTERY RADIO" is slow in coming, the next will be the GRR-5, though we know most everything about it, few know what it was actually intended for as apposed to how it was used. After that the SCR-511(Pogo Stick), it had a very brief but outstanding wartime history. The mystery? What happened to it? Possible future runner ups for other "Mystery Radios" might be the GRC-14, TRC-7, or TRC-10, information on all is very limited, maybe the BC-728, you let me know. Dennis *********************************************** HUMOR; Signs Plus, Sign on an electrician's truck: "Let Us Remove Your Shorts." Sign outside a radiator repair shop in a small midwestern town: "Best Place in Town to Take a Leak." Sign in a maternity clothes store: "We are open on labor day." Sign on the door of the maternity ward: "Push - Push - Push." Sign in a podiatrist's window: "Time wounds all heels." Sign in a muffler shop: "No appointment necessary. We'll hear you coming." Sign at the dry cleaner's window: "Drop your pants here." Sign on a parking space at a garden nursery: "Reserved for plant manager." Sign on a door to a psychiatric ward: "Please do not disturb further." Sign in a veterinary's waiting room: "Be back in 5 minutes. Sit! Stay!" Sign in a bowling alley: "Please be quiet. We need to hear a pin drop." Sign in a cafeteria: "Shoes are required to eat in the cafeteria." In pencil beneath the sign: Socks can eat anyplace they want." Sign on the inside of a bathroom stall: "Beware of limbo dancers." Sign in a Maine restaurant: "Open 7 days a week and weekends." Sign in school: "In case of atomic attack, the federal ruling concerning prayer in this building will be temporarily suspended." Sign on an asphalt truck: "Let us fill your crack!" Sign at a muffler shop: "No muff too tough for us!" ----------------------------------------------------------- A friend from West Virginia was shopping at the Wal-Mart in Blacksburg, VA. At the cash register, my friend wrote a check. The clerk asked for her driver's license. She presented her West Virginia drivers license and the clerk grabbed it away from her and scoffed at her, "If you're going to use a fake ID, you could at least use a real state!" A manager was required to verify West Virginia's statehood. ------------------------------------------------------------------- A report from a 9th grader: Our school campus has twenty buildings spread over seventy acres. There were two soda machines. Recently they added a third. I overheard the workers arguing where to put the new machine. They decided to put it next to the other machine because that way people would notice it when buying drinks. There was one tiny flaw in that plan. The two machines sold the same drinks, and the new one cost an extra 75 cents. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ While shopping at the grocery store, I noticed that the tuna packed in spring water was labelled dolphin safe, but the tuna packed in oil was not. I mentioned this fact to the cashier and mused out loud, "I wonder why?" She replied, "Must be because the oil would suffocate them." --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The instructor was demonstrating the wonders of static electricity to his class at MIT. While holding a plastic rod in one hand and a wool cloth in the other, he told the class, "You can see that I get a large charge from rubbing my rod..." That was pretty much the end of learning for that day. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I worked for a while at a Wal-Mart store, selling sporting goods. As an employee of Wal-Mart you are sometimes required to make store-wide pages, e.g.,"I have a customer in hardware who needs assistance at the paint counter." One night a tentative female voice came over the intercom system with the (I kid you not) following message: "I have a customer by the balls in toys who needs assistance." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dennis, This just in from Haps Mil. A 75 year old man went to his doctor's office to get a sperm count. The doctor gave the man a jar and said, "Take this jar home and bring me back a sample tomorrow." The next day, the old man reappears at the doctor's office and gives him the jar which is as clean and empty as the previous day. The doctor asks what happened, and the old man explains, "Well doc, it's like this. First I tried I tried with my right hand, but nothing. I tried with my left hand, but nothing. Then I asked my wife for help. She tried with her right hand, but nothing. The her left hand, but nothing. She even tried with her mouth, first with her teeth in, then with her teeth out, and still nothing. Hell, we even called the neighbor next door. She tried with both hands and her mouth too, but still nothing. The doctor was shocked. "You asked your NEIGHBOR?" "Yep!", the old man replied. But no matter what we tried, we couldn't get the damn jar opened. *********************************************** EDITOR; Dennis Starks; MILITARY RADIO COLLECTOR/HISTORIAN military-radio-guy@juno.com --------- End forwarded message ----------