From: pdalby@sympatico.ca   
      
   hooky wrote:   
   > Take a very close look at our destroyers pre IRE that is to say the old   
   > original steamers. Not the DDHs but the destroyers. Have a close look   
   > at the pedestal on the starboard side of the flag deck aft of the   
   > bridge. It has a thickset run of cables that run up and under and into   
   > what looks like an upside down garbage can on the pedestal.   
   > Guess what .....it is a garbage can. There is nothing inside it and the   
   > wires are turned over and taped to the inside they go NOWHERE.   
   > I was an electronic warfare type (and proud to say an ex RCAF brat) I   
   > can assure you that the antenna was never fitted because we never got   
   > the bit of gear it was supposed to be attached to.   
   > It drove the yanks and russians nuts though !   
   >   
   > hooky   
   >   
   Hooky, as one ex-RCAF brat to another, do you mind sharing which bases   
   you were posted to and when?  Just wondering if our paths may have   
   crossed.  My dad was M.E. Section and we were at Trenton, Aylmer,   
   Churchill & Lachine in the 50's and Trenton again in the early 60's,   
   until dad retired in '65.  Thanks.   
      
   Paul   
      
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