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Orange Crush


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Every April they load up a semi with packages of Crush and send it north to Minnesota. When it arrives, all the hobbyists take the day off and stage an informal party– a long line of pickup trucks and station wagons (and one ice-cream truck) stretching back from the semi, everybody waiting excitedly and sharing snacks. I bought two packages, reasoning that for a beginner one would be too risky and three too much work.

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While doing a little research for the radio-amateurs-in-Ethiopia book, I was blindsided by my next two books:

Sir Francis Walsingham ran a postal interception bureau with some cryptanalytic capability during the reign of Elizabeth I, but the technology was only slightly less advanced than men with shotguns, during World War I, who jammed pigeon post communications and intercepted the messages carried.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGINT_in_Modern_History

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