[ARC5] The comms war - VHF & HF (a bit OT).

[J. Forster]

OK. I was too young to have seen rationing in North America, but I
remember it as a kid visiting in the UK as I've said.

-John

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quikus.com>
> To: "Leslie Smith" <vk2bcu at operamail.com>
> Cc: "ARC-5 List" <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2012 9:11 AM
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] The comms war - VHF & HF (a bit OT).
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>
>> Hi Leslie,
>>
>> It was not only British factories that suffered.
>>
>> In about 1956, I was visiting my grandparents in Surrey. I
>> was repeatedly
>> told not to go digging in the gardon or playing in the
>> pond because there
>> were still unexploded bits from WW II dogfights there.
>> This was a full
>> decade after the war ended. They still had a bomb shelter.
>>
>> Also, in either 1952 or 1956 a few things were still
>> rationed. I remember
>> eggs being scarce. The same grandparents had a chicken
>> coop and a few
>> hens, BTW.
>>
>> I believe a few things (rubber, gasoline?) were rationed
>> in the US, but
>> nowhere near the UK.
>>
>> -John
>>
>     I don't know about British rationing but it was heavily
> applied here. Not only rubber and gasoline but meat, leather
> goods, including shoes, many metals and things made of them,
> also paper, a long list of things.  I picked up a little
> alarm clock not long ago at a swap meet. The dial said
> Waralarm on it so I looked it up.  Turns out that clocks
> were rationed because they contained brass.  This alarm
> clock was designed to minimize the use of brass and was made
> to sell to war workers who needed to be there on time. I
> have not done a web search for rationing but there may be a
> list somewhere.
>     I remember shopping with my mom and seeing the ration
> books.
>
>
> --
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles
> WB6KBL
> dickburk at ix.netcom.com
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