Reed's association with Spatz Curtis was brief. Curtis, a desert-dwelling truck driver, discovered one of Reed's Rovers that which had blown off course and been lost in the desert for several weeks. Curtis called John Reed's number, which was engraved on the lost rover. It was, perhaps, out of a sense of gratitude that Reed offered some advice to Curtis about the configuration of a homemade satellite receiver Curtis was building. This was of course, the now-legendary apparatus that was to link us to the terrifying future history of SPACEREX.COM. next previous