[MRCA] Fw: Most Useless Radio: WD8AXB pick

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Well, maybe you sat on your porch, but neither I, my father nor my great 
grandfather did.  I'm not grumpy, I'm disgusted by the entire thread.  And 
your comments in particular.

Nothing has been posted about any comments made by using troops.  So your 
comments assume facts not in evidence.

I have no doubt that you have absolutely no idea as to what a JG on the 
bridge of a DE in the North Atlantic thought of the TBS when he picked up the 
handset and called the CVE for a launch to help prosecute a contact.  Imagine 
the situation if he had had to use a set he knew the Nazi in the U-boat 
could hear.  Or write out a message and send it down to Central to be sent by 
CW, which the U-boat could also hear 20 minutes later.  Versus simply picking 
up the handset and saying "Homebase, scramble viper.  Contact bearing 225 
range 5000."

You people are trying to rewrite history in the light of what's available 
today.  There is a derogatory name for that but it escapes me at the moment.  
You can't unless you are totally dishonest make derogatory comments about a 
set simply because it doesn't measure up to your current cell phone or 
I-pad, which is all you really know anything about.

R W Downs
CWO4 USNR Ret'd.

In a message dated 09/19/2012 22:49:06 PM Central Daylight Time, 
chancewolf at me.com writes: 
> And you're welcome to your opinion, but the GI's using some of this gear
> said far worse things about it than anyone else on this list (as with any
> soldier in any war on any topic from leadership to rations to equipment) 
> so
> we're all carrying merrily on in that tradition and having fun with the
> hobby, the equipment, and our fellow collectors.
> 
> Unfortunately there's always one or two eternally grumpy people sitting in
> the corner of the porch yelling "STAY OFF MY LAWN" while the rest of the
> neighbourhood has fun, but not much can really be done about it short of
> exercising some sort of surgical option.
> 
> Cheers.
> 

Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480