[Boatanchors] Electrolytic Reforming Time

[Geoff]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bry Carling" <bcarling at cfl.rr.com>
To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 7:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Electrolytic Reforming Time


> From:"Geoff" <geoffrey at jeremy.mv.com>
>
> Carl, KM1H brassily wrote: "The only trouble we both got into was with the 
> pompous
> and often unsufferable Brits."
>
> Carl - Speaking of pomposity, I can't see why you have to keep rudely 
> picking on
> people's RACE here,

** Its a shame that you dont even know what race means. Im not even going 
there.

 even after requests from
> the moderator and from others to stop it.

** No moderator has said anything to me yet and as far as Im concerned that 
discussion was over last night. If a moderator is upset I apologize but felt 
the unprovoked attack on Americans had to be addressed.
Others are of no concern as they do not control anyone on the list.



  I also wonder why your messages are
> from "Geoff" - maybe it' s my mail reader.

** What does an email address have to do with anything?


>
> Incidentally, some of the fine British antique radio experts on this list 
> (whom you
> now turn to insulting) have been a great help
> to me, and if it weren't for that small number of radio amateurs in the 
> U.K.

** There you go off on a tangent again. All I was discussing was my USN 
experience when members of different navies were in the same drinking 
establishments together and how the Aussies and Americans were on the same 
side of the brawl or loud discussions. Im in almost daily contact with UK 
friends on the air or on lists and email.

. I would
> never have learned about the joys of  amateur radio
> nor become licensed as G3XLQ back in the 1960s. My first receiver was an 
> R1155
> from a Lancaster Bomber , in which 2/3 of our boys lost
> their lives helping to defend your arse's freedom.


** Revisionist history raises its ugly head. My 2 uncles who flew in B-17's 
out of England were a small part of the reason you are not posting this in 
German as it took the effort of both our countries working together to win.

The reason so many Lancasters were lost was the low operational ceiling of 
only 19000' plus a slow rate of climb of 250'/min that allowed easy 
interception and flak kills compared to 35600' and 900'/min for the B-17. 
The inability to take as much punishment as the B-17, comparatively lightly 
armed, and running out of fuel didnt help either. Nobody has ever doubted 
the crews braveness and sacrifice but slow and lumbering flying coffins is 
one way my uncle Walter described them. He came home with a Brit wife and 
raised 11 kids. Uncle Fred walked away from a crash landing in Belgium with 
a broken arm and was shipped back home shortly before the war was over, 
their were no fatalities to the crew.


 An improvised 230V AC power
> supply had to built by hand on a biscuit tin for the thing.
> What a joy it was to see that thing succeed and hear the crackling and 
> heterodynes
> as those strong (and I may add FRIENDLY) signals
> rolled in from across the pond on the 14 MHz band.  Down with racism. Rule
> Brittania! 73 & Happy New Year.
>
> AF4K (one of the Britz, who pictures Carl in a Bratz outfit)


** The poster boy for what is bad about the Brit minority, not the fine ones 
that all of us respect. As far as boatanchor relevance I dont think the US 
was ever paid for all the HRO's and AR-88's that were used in the UK as a 
part of the war effort. Did you ever hear of Bletchley Park?

Carl