Yep - that was the one ;o)
Now - just bin it :o(

S.


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 alan.b.pearce@stfc.ac.uk
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Subject: RE: [EE] Bypass capacitor really required?

> 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=20
> mantle radio - a cabinet AM model with valves. He pulled it away from=20
> the wall to find a shrivelled, mouldy sausage pushed in behind. "That's r=
ight" said The Owner.
> "I remember - if you touch that wire the reception was much better so=20
> we stuck the sausage there."
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> Apocryphal and one I have heard elsewhere but first read in the=20
> Serviceman 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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