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

[Bob Macklin]

There was some kind of oil processing facility at Goleta at the time.

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 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] The comms war - VHF & HF (a bit OT).


> Really? I didn't know that. A pretty futile gesture, IMO. There's very
> little strategic there. Goleta was a dump, last seen.
>
> -John
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>> 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.
>>>
>>> The only time the continental US was bombed was by balloons from Japan.
>>>
>>> Take care,
>>>
>>> -John
>>>
>>> ===============
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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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