[NJARC] Fwd: Re: [The WS No.19 Group] Militairia Fairs.

[Scott Roberts]

Hi Everyone! I just enjoyed this posting on the WS19
board (British military Mk 19 sets) so much, I had to
post it here! Sounds very familiar!

See you on Friday!
Scott



> To: Wireless-Set-No19 at yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 05:30:34 EST
> Subject: Re: [The WS No.19 Group] Militairia Fairs.
> 
>  
> In a message dated 05/02/2008 10:13:40 GMT Standard
> Time,  
> jbbr35487 writes:
> 
> Ref  the comments on these,well I went three times
> to the Three Counties
> Ok if  interested in guns etc,but Radio gear was non
> existant.That is 
> except for  ONE WS19 that a friend got to before me
> and got it for 
> around  £30,Yaaaaggghhhhh !!!.Gave up after
> that,hi,hi.To far from 
> Bristol and too  bl**dy cold !!,hi,hi.Later Got that
> WS19,clean REME 
> rebuild,hacked a bit  BUT it's the one I got working
> and use now !!.
> Sadly rallies are a shadow  of what they used to
> be,take in my area the 
> demise of Longleat !!.Best  "Local" now to me is the
> Flight 
> Refuelling,still at the end of the day  it's down to
> luck if you see 
> something interesting,something interesting, at
> least it's a day out?
> 
> 
> 
>
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>  
> Well John,  rallies used to be where like minded
> anoraks, in this case  radio 
> hams, got together and talked, had a picnic, day
> out, friends meeting etc  
> etc. It used to be a delight.  Now, its a pure
> business. Sellers and  buyers. 
> Sellers with tat they think is worth crown jewel
> status, buyers,  (most with 
> hands in pocket) who have no money, wife nags them,
> "I can't buy  that, the wife 
> would kill me" type, now live in modern box roomed
> paper houses  with no 
> garden so no spare room for the hobby, no room for a
> shed, have been  told to be 
> back by 2pm when their Turkey twizzlers will be on
> the table and  'don't be late 
> or else', have clutched in their overworked hand the
> 3 shilling  and 6 pence 
> three farthing they have managed to squirrel away
> from their wages  before she 
> got her hands on it and fully expect to buy a rare
> spy set in  pristine 
> condition with change to spare. Then, when buyer
> meets seller the buyer  moans "I 
> remember when they were only 6 shillings down
> Totters court rd in  1865". Come 
> 1pm they all trundle off home, moaning at prices,
> clutching maybe  the odd bag 
> or two of resistors they will never use, the plug
> they haggled down  to 5p, 
> and the odd plastic bag, containing stickers and a
> pen, happily  given to them 
> by the mighty Japanese lords of plastic who
> laughingly thinks  there are the 
> type to buy their latest £3000 toy. 
>  
> Happy days !
>  
> Three Counties cow shed. Yes, always bloody cold. I
> have found a few bits  
> there over the years but as per above, the prices
> are now real silly so, I  
> choose to stay in my nice warm bed instead, hi.
>  
> cheers all, Ben. 



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