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Ram Blamed for Mysterious Signals
A mysterious transmission that baffled British intelligence analysts for days was caused by a ram rubbing up against an aerial mast, a government agency said Tuesday. A member of the Real Baaaaa-th Party. Scientists at Government Communications Headquarters in Cheltenham, western England, an intelligence-gathering station, were baffled by strange high-frequency noises coming from Scarborough signal station in Yorkshire, northeastern England. GCHQâs in-house paper, the Daily Observer, said the noises were unlike anything staff had encountered before and an investigating team initially thought they were coming from spies or aliens. Their investigation found the signal only happened in the day time, went across all the high-frequency bands and only Scarborough aerials could pick it up. This is the kind of intermittant problem that drives electronic technicians to drink, heavily. Eventually, investigators discovered that a ram was rubbing its horns against the aerial masts "in between servicing some local ewes," the paper said. God, Iâd love to see how they entered this report in their maintenance database. "Ok, whatâs the code for horny sheep?" Posted by: Steve 2003-11-04 |
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