Originally Posted by
BEagle
That said, whilst flying at low level over the US, it was mightily tempting to select 27.185 MHz AM and announce to the truckers that you were a "Southbound 18-wheeler with the hammer down!".
There's a story that when Rockwell were developing a 30kW frequency-agile HF transmitter and large log-periodic antenna system for the US DOD, the test technicians used to amuse themselves at lunchtime by doing something similar.
And before it was demolished the Cobra Mist array at Orfordness was used at least twice by one of the resident amateurs on the staff for something similar, allegedly...