I recently had occasion to create a MIDI file for a song that haunted me from my teen years and which was associated with a technology interest of mine.

One day while I was in High School and home sick, I found two very weak TV signals on UHF channels 72 and 76; at first I thought they were IF images or something; but they turned out to be obscure emissions from an aircraft at 23,000 feet and 106 miles away.  This amazed me because as we all know, 106 miles is still and was very much then a DX UHF TV signal.  I was putting our 21 inch, round CRT, tube circuited, 1964 Zenith color TV to the test. Over the next year I was able to see a snowy picture on channels 72 and 76 about half the time that I looked on weekday afternoons.  Finally in 1968 I visited the Purdue campus in Lafayette for the first time and actually toured one of the DC-6s and the video tape dubbing facility.  By this point I already had my FCC Third Class Permit with Broadcast Endorsement; so this was a genuine technology treat.

You all know I'm wierd; as objective evidence, whenever I hear the tune, "Lazy Afternoon", I think of those video tape laden DC-6s flying lazy figure eights over east-central Indiana...    

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