Dark Winter Nights, Long Drives and AM Radio

Dark, wet two lane roads appearing in the headlights. Tuning the analog airwaves; WLS, WJR, KDKA, WCBS, WOWO, WSM and others fading in and out, faint Spanish and French in the mix. Remembering hearing rock and roll for the first time on late night AM radio-reliving the past. Is that the Wolfman spinning Buddy on XERF-must be my imagination.

73 de Rob

Tucson

Everyone seems preoccupied with the mindset of the shooter in the Gifford tragedy. My question is what motivated the three civilians that brought a chair to a gunfight. Two were not spring chickens and one was not in proximity to the shooting-he ran to the sound of the guns. My SO opined that real heroes do not think themselves heroic. From what was said in the news interviews these people did not. All to many were concerned with the shooter's motivations and quick to assign blame, not necessarily to the shooter. But what shaped the behavior of those that put themselves in harm's way. The retired army officer I can understand, when I was younger I heard those shots in anger and the reflexes, albeit slowed by time, still stir. But the others? No benefit of training or experience and unarmed, did what had to be done-these are the people we should learn from.

73 de Rob

IT

After the weekend I checked up on a report due asap, went to the que on our electronic document server and 90% was gone and the history said repeated actions had been taken on the documents long after I had logged off. After my diatribe about clay tablets still being readable after 6,000 years the IT boss lady was able to recover most of the text of the report-in ASCII format, with a +between each letter, no pagination, transposed blocks of text and blank spots. I got my copies of Gaines and Kahn and went to work-it was like a Bolshevik transposition cypher. Either the insurer should continue to provide payment to services or I have to attack the Winter Palace on October 25. Nuttin to do with ham radio, or maybe so, like listening to numbers stations, or hearing voices in the static, listening to the randomness......

73 de Rob