section7mfu | "Weather or Not" a double drabble story, chapter 4 ~ for "A Little Drabble Do Ya! (Reply)

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Napoleon dallied with one of the secretaries, chatting her up in the Commissary; he quickly arranged a date. He finally got around to bringing coffee to the lab and a couple of roast beef heros.

“So how many dates did you arrange while you were gone?”

“Moi? Well, only one. Missy Taylor; you know the one with the big…”

“Yes I’m aware of her ‘assets’. Illya lifted his hero and took one bite from it. “Catsup? Really, must you?”

“Hey, creature of habit.” Napoleon shrugged.” What’ve you got going here?”

“Adding an antenna, a diode detector, and this, a portable spectrum analyzer. I can track multiple radio signals. Most radios tune to one frequency at a time with a limited amount of bandwidth around that frequency; it is hard to compare the strengths of two stations simultaneously without resorting to memory tricks or rapid tuning."

"With the analyzer I can see a wide range of frequencies at once and the various radio stations, peaks and so forth. Once I establish the normal patterns, I will be able to identify out of the ordinary signals, and with the oscilloscope I will match any unusual electrical spikes coinciding with those signals.”

“Wow…”

Chapter 5