OT -- but funny:

I was one of those kids who builds a railgun in his bedroom, age 11 or so.  This is later...

At the Avionics School in Georgia, 1964, I had a clock radio that stopped working. This was bad because I needed to wake up while there was still hot water in the showers so, when we stood Saturday after inspection, I threw it on my footlocker, plugged it in, and started troubleshooting with ambient RF noise

"WHAT are you doing?"

“Troubleshooting this radio."

"You can't do that; you don't have any test equipment."

I explained about ambient noise and said “Listen.”

Putting my finger on the screwdriver shaft, I touched the detector input pin and a local AM station in the middle of its weekend SF program, came booming out of the speaker:

“Major! We are in contact with the planet Mars!"

Could NEVER do that on purpose.


On 3/23/18 10:49 AM, Grasso, Charles wrote:

Hi all,

I am writing a column internal to my company about the topic
of EM emissions.  Considering the topic(!) I would like to
add some humor to keep the reader engaged.

I would be grateful if any of you that have humerous stories
related to EMI that you would share them with me!

Thanks

Charles Grasso

(w) 303-706-5467

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