> Ahh - The glory days of EA and the Serviceman...

Yes, I was an avid reader of the stories ...

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> My favourite story was of the time "he" was called to fix an old mantle r=
adio -
> a cabinet AM model with valves. He pulled it away from the wall to find a
> shrivelled, mouldy sausage pushed in behind. "That's right" said The Owne=
r.
> "I remember - if you touch that wire the reception was much better so we
> stuck the sausage there."
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> Apocryphal and one I have heard elsewhere but first read in the Servicema=
n
> about 1969...

I remember that one too. IIRC it was on an outback station, and they didn't=
 have a proper aerial.



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