[Boatanchors] Electrolytic Reforming Time

[Jim]

Geez Carl you didn't read my New Years don't be an A-hole message

I would speak of perfidious Albion, but your brain would explode

BTW What engineering school DID you graduate from????

>> 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
>
>
>
>
>
>
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