[Dixielandjazz] Arthur Godfrey

[Patrick Cooke]

FYI:

All of those dahdits at the end of Will Connelly's post were his old Ham
radio Operator's call sign W6QID.

Pat Cooke.....WA4BVR
New Orleans
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Will Connelly" <willc at highstream.net>
To: "Don Ingle" <dingle at baldwin-net.com>
Cc: <LeslieMRag at aol.com>; <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 8:58 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Arthur Godfrey


> Thanks to Don for the memory.
>
> Also on Godfrey was monumental clarinetist Johnny Mince.  In 1948 - 50 I
> was assigned to the radio shop of the 3499th Mobile Training Group at
> Chanute Field, Illinois, and my days began by boarding whichever of the
> group's six C-47s or three B-25s that were at home and checking their
> radios.
>
> Now each of these planes had an AN/ARN-7 radio compass and when I
> finished my work all the directional loops were aimed at Chicago and the
> receivers were all tuned to WBBM. Oddly enough, the radio checks were
> completed at just about the time the Godfrey show ended.
> Kindly,
> Will "didahdah dahdidididit dahdahdiddah didit dahdidit" Connelly
>
>
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