True Radio Detective Files
Mar. 1st, 2015 08:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Once upon a time in the 1950's my dad was an investigator for the FCC, hunting illegal radio transmitters (remember those?). One of those investigations involved hunting for a gang using radio transmitters at race tracks to transmit the results to compatriots doing off-track betting.
They caught the guys, and Dad actually got his picture in a "True Detective" style magazine showing off the gear they used. After Dad passed away, my mom SWORE she had given me the magazine as a memento. Then she promptly got peeved at me because I told her I couldn't find it.
So, ten years after Dad died and I supposedly lost the magazine, guess what she finally found in her files? Ha!
Once upon a time in the 1950's my dad was an investigator for the FCC, hunting illegal radio transmitters (remember those?). One of those investigations involved hunting for a gang using radio transmitters at race tracks to transmit the results to compatriots doing off-track betting.
They caught the guys, and Dad actually got his picture in a "True Detective" style magazine showing off the gear they used. After Dad passed away, my mom SWORE she had given me the magazine as a memento. Then she promptly got peeved at me because I told her I couldn't find it.
So, ten years after Dad died and I supposedly lost the magazine, guess what she finally found in her files? Ha!
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Date: 2015-03-03 05:56 am (UTC)("Remember those" my ass. We have have shenanigans with pirate stations in the last year or so here in Boston. Note that I am not unsympathetic to them.)