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

[Bob Macklin]

But Santa Barbara (Goletea) was shelled but a Jap submarine.

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quikus.com>
To: "Bob Macklin" <macklinbob at msn.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2012 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] The comms war - VHF & HF (a bit OT).


> You must be about 10 years older than I. I've seen pics of the disguised
> plants.
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> The only time the continental US was bombed was by balloons from Japan.
>
> Take care,
>
> -John
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>> I remember the rationing.
>>
>> I lived in Seattle on Dec. 7th, 1941 and I do remember the West Coast
>> blackouts. The Boeing factories in Seattle and the Douglas factories in
>> Long
>> beach had camouflage nets covering them.
>>
>> We turned in all used tin cans. We saved cooking grease in one of those
>> cans
>> and turned them in also. The cooking grease was used in the manufacturing
>> of
>> munitions.
>>
>> Bob K5MYJ
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quikus.com>
>> To: "Richard Knoppow" <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
>> Cc: "ARC-5 List" <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2012 10:06 AM
>> Subject: Re: [ARC5] The comms war - VHF & HF (a bit OT).
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> ==================
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- 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).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 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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