X Files in Norfolk...

[oldhamboy1967]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/4732096.stm

and http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/21/nfused21.xml

The Telegraph reporting of this was my fave, especially the print edition that had pictures of one concerned local in front of the radome and in her car, just in case the illiterate readers of the paper couldn't work out the story for themselves.

 

[101]

Well, they should have got a proper radar in there

silly me, they are soon going to, aren't they...DT_Xtremez_06:

 

[tourettes]

Or is it something to do with the failure of the carrot crunchers to understand modern technology!

 

[oldhamboy1967]

Well, they should have got a proper radar in there

silly me, they are soon going to, aren't they...DT_Xtremez_06:

Proper...? T80 you mean...? DT_Xtremez_32:

 

[tourettes]

Now now Oldham boy, any more of that and you'll give the game away that you are a cold war warrior. Next thing you know you'll be talking about sitting with your feet up on the "no-height" button in the height finder cabin!

 

[oldhamboy1967]

Heights!

Heights!

Nah, I was further North and I didn't get to see a heightfinder till I got to Saxa! But I did used to get lost of phonecalls from a mate, now out of the mob, who was on heights down South and I couldn't get my head round how he was able to call me whilst on pos.

As for the Cold War, it's ironic/weird/strange that I actually visit old R3s and similar places now that they're all museums. In fact I'm off to one in a few weeks... :raf:

 

[101]

risking getting back to the point....DT_Xtremez_28:

what if the locals were right .... ?

 

[oldhamboy1967]

risking getting back to the point....DT_Xtremez_28:

what if the locals were right .... ?

They could be. It always made me wonder when I was on a radar why the techies got the little X-Ray tech badges and we didn't... DT_Xtremez_08:

Seriously though, it is being investigated and hopefully it'll get resolved.

 

[101]

jobs a good'un, cant have been us guv DT_Xtremez_26:

 

[polar69]

I remember on the 93 at Hopton we used to play havoc with the local farmers tractor

 

[metimmee]

While I was on TMT, I had to prepare a presentation about radiation safety (yawn) . It was about how to set up a radar site. The radar AP I was working from had warnings within it stating that audible clicks inside your head whilst in the vicinity of the radar were nothing to be alarmed about!

 

[mad_collie]

They could be. It always made me wonder when I was on a radar why the techies got the little X-Ray tech badges and we didn't... DT_Xtremez_08:

Seriously though, it is being investigated and hopefully it'll get resolved.

Good reason for the scopies not having badges - 'C' class stores . . . .

When I was on T93 @ Saxa, my clapped Rover 400 used to flip out on the side lobes, I even got 3rd line to watch, & they couldn't explain. Both the rev counter & speedo used to go to max. So there is a chance that the story has some cred, but not as bad as it's made out.

 

[Datalink Squirrel]

I remember on the 93 at Hopton we used to play havoc with the local farmers tractor

And at Tidyhead, we regularly heard from a local resident whose TV kept getting a ZZZZT! sound from the T85.
DT_Xtremez_30:
Notice who the mechanic was speaking to the local paper? Surely not Ginge (the Whinge) C*****d, ex-OC 1ACC?! Loved 1ACC, he did; helped to keep it going by pushing for it to go to some craphole near Newcie. And made it a decidedly unpopular post - some people actually PVRd rather than go there. And allowed most of his people to sod off on holiday during JMCs in winter and made NT & BU send reinforcements (ah, yes. STOs).
DT_Xtremez_25:

 

[MAINJAFAD]

And at Tidyhead, we regularly heard from a local resident whose TV kept getting a ZZZZT! sound from the T85.
DT_Xtremez_30:
Notice who the mechanic was speaking to the local paper? Surely not Ginge (the Whinge) C*****d, ex-OC 1ACC?! Loved 1ACC, he did; helped to keep it going by pushing for it to go to some craphole near Newcie. And made it a decidedly unpopular post - some people actually PVRd rather than go there. And allowed most of his people to sod off on holiday during JMCs in winter and made NT & BU send reinforcements (ah, yes. STOs).
DT_Xtremez_25:

Nope, different C*****d, but the guy was an ex-Scopie. The one your thinking of just happened to be the CO of some craphole near Newcie at the time.

 

[Datalink Squirrel]

Jn that case, I never heard of him. But he was described in the local papers as a former fighter controller.

 

[NotAnIDOYet]

And at Tidyhead, we regularly heard from a local resident whose TV kept getting a ZZZZT! sound from the T85.
DT_Xtremez_30:
Notice who the mechanic was speaking to the local paper? Surely not Ginge (the Whinge) C*****d, ex-OC 1ACC?! Loved 1ACC, he did; helped to keep it going by pushing for it to go to some craphole near Newcie. And made it a decidedly unpopular post - some people actually PVRd rather than go there. And allowed most of his people to sod off on holiday during JMCs in winter and made NT & BU send reinforcements (ah, yes. STOs).
DT_Xtremez_25:

Having been on 1ACC and never managing to get leave approved during a JMC, or any other exercise, me thinks you are talking bollards!!

 

[Bingo]

Jn that case, I never heard of him. But he was described in the local papers as a former fighter controller.

N*** C******d was certainly in the RAF as a Scopie, but I would hardly refer to him as a Fighter Controller as he was a lowly SAC based at Neatishead who PVR'd after a few years service. He did, however, introduce a new generation of people to the joys of the 'Mundsley Royal', and that, in itself, was unforgiveable!!!DT_Xtremez_08:

 

[Stingray]

Remember the 93 at Staxton went on full power tests one day.
half the national grid went down and all the insects for 100 yds around dropped like flies....get it...dropped like flies??????
::

 

[shettie]

Remember the 93 at Staxton went on full power tests one day.
half the national grid went down and all the insects for 100 yds around dropped like flies....get it...dropped like flies??????
::

That might be the same day thet 2 Sqn Ldrs in a new Beemer - driving up the access road shuddered to a halt as the 93 fried the engine management... then there was the problem with some new phone system, can't remember the name - but it worked on the same freq as the 93 - and the receivers for that system used to go bnag as the 93 swept thru...

Wasn't as good as the old 85 - the substation used to glow cherry pink when half the transmitters were run up!

 

[Datalink Squirrel]

Having been on 1ACC and never managing to get leave approved during a JMC, or any other exercise, me thinks you are talking bollards!!

Ah, yes. No 1 ASOp Correction Centre (ala Colchester). Those bollards were the result of listening to those who had the misfortune to do the STO, and in conversation with 1 or 2 senior (and I mean senior) scopies, 1 of whom made a telephone call in protest.