Radschool Association Magazine

Radschool Association Magazine - Vol 12

Next reunion 25-27 April 2003

31 Oct 2002

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Lining up for lunch in the Airmans’ Mess at Amberley at the reunion back in March 2000 are L-R:
Ron Anstiss, Dave Muir-McCarey (partly hidden-but the only real rad tech-airy of course), Stew Skermon, Mike Sheppard and Grahame Venn.

Enthusiastic crowd line up to have a look inside the mighty Caribou. The old girl doesn't look all that different from the outside, but inside it’s a different story. Gone are all those heavy old sets like the ARN21 Tacan which weighed a ton. Now-not a valve in sight, all the old stuff has been replaced with miniature PCB stuff, completely foreign to a lot of us. The HF set is now not much bigger than the printed version of this magazine, and long gone is the 180L2 coupler, that magical thing that somehow used to tune the HF antenna to the desired frequency, and which absolutely no-one could work out how or why it worked, or how to fix the damn thing when it broke.

Over the 23-25Aug weekend, 38 Sqn at Amberley celebrated their 38th year of operations with the old Caribou, and they put on a party. People came from far and wide to celebrate the event, and it was good to see a bunch of blokes again after all those years-though most of the buggers have got old since last seen, in a lot cases, way back in 1969. Pictured to the right are L-R, Wally Salzmann, Bob Meyer and John Broughton, sharing a coldy in the Rec Area at the “pleasant Saturday afternoon”. The Saturday night dinner dance was very well attended, with many hundreds drinking and dancing the night away. More next issue.

42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

War does not determine who is right, war determines who is left.

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