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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi) February 13th 12, 11:29 AM Posted to sci.electronics.repair,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
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Posted By Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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David Looser wrote:

That seems to me to be the biggest "if" all. It seems that the invasion of
the Soviet Union was Hitler's ultimate aim all along, the other invasions:
Czechoslovakia,...
Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi) February 13th 12, 11:19 AM Posted to sci.electronics.repair,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
Replies: 965
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Posted By Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

You have a strange idea of the power of the monarch in the UK. He would
have done as he was told or face the consequences. If he wasn't allowed to
marry who he...
Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi) February 13th 12, 09:39 AM Posted to sci.electronics.repair,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
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Posted By Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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David Looser wrote:

Do you mean that the war could have been avoided completely, or that the US
could have stayed out?

FDR was pro-war (or anti-NAZI, depending upon your point of view).

The...
Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi) February 12th 12, 08:29 PM Posted to sci.electronics.repair,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
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Posted By Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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Roderick Stewart wrote:

I usually take it as an indication that the perpetrator only knows the
language through sound, probably because they have never got into the
habit of reading...
Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi) February 12th 12, 02:44 PM Posted to sci.electronics.repair,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
Replies: 965
Views: 37,689
Posted By Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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J G Miller wrote:

It is all to do with the inevitable consonant and vowel shifting that
occurs in dialects and languages, something like

formally he would have

can become ...
Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi) February 12th 12, 11:14 AM Posted to sci.electronics.repair,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
Replies: 965
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Posted By Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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Terry Casey wrote:

I think you will find that it was an Allied invasion ...

I know, I was wondering if anyone was actually paying attention. :-)

Geoff.


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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi) February 12th 12, 10:14 AM Posted to sci.electronics.repair,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
Replies: 965
Views: 37,689
Posted By Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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David Looser wrote:

You were privy to the deliberations of the Japanese government? I'm
impressed!

Oh, come on. I said IMHO, and it was exactly that, an opionon of someone
born after the war,...
Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi) February 12th 12, 08:59 AM Posted to sci.electronics.repair,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
Replies: 965
Views: 37,689
Posted By Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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Arny Krueger wrote:

"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" wrote in message
...
Arny Krueger wrote:

One point - this Nazi development...
Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi) February 9th 12, 06:09 PM Posted to sci.electronics.repair,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
Replies: 965
Views: 37,689
Posted By Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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Arny Krueger wrote:

Right. It wasn't jet powered, either. The jet engines of the day had service
lives measured in integer hours, which means that a flight from Europe to
the US would be...
Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi) February 9th 12, 06:04 PM Posted to sci.electronics.repair,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
Replies: 965
Views: 37,689
Posted By Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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Arny Krueger wrote:

One point - this Nazi development (never a practical tool of war) was a
fighter not a bomber. Even in more modern times developing a stealth bomber
was far more...
Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi) February 9th 12, 11:44 AM Posted to sci.electronics.repair,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
Replies: 965
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Posted By Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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Terry Casey wrote:

Not a bomber - it would have been the A10 rocket.

No, it was a "stealth" airplane.

According to the show, the troops found an experimental stealth airplane
in a hangar in...
Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi) February 9th 12, 10:19 AM Posted to sci.electronics.repair,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
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Posted By Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

Looking back in hindsight, it would have been very likely that if Europe was
not invaded in 1994, by 1946 the Luftwaffe would of had a jet engine
bomber that was...
Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi) February 9th 12, 09:59 AM Posted to sci.electronics.repair,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
Replies: 965
Views: 37,689
Posted By Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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David Looser wrote:

According to the history books the US entered WW2 because it was attacked by
the Japanese. It seems that Michael A. Terrell thinks that Japan is in
Europe.

The US was...
Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi) February 9th 12, 04:39 AM Posted to sci.electronics.repair,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
Replies: 965
Views: 37,689
Posted By Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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I've always wondered if somebody might have been seen furtively slipping
out of the back door of Broadcasting House that Monday afternoon before
setting off to walk down to Battersea...
Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi) February 8th 12, 09:24 AM Posted to sci.electronics.repair,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
Replies: 965
Views: 37,689
Posted By Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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David Looser wrote:

Of course if you are only looking for local coverage you could run several
networks in the available spectrum. But the argument was that VHF gave
better national coverage...
Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi) February 7th 12, 02:59 PM Posted to sci.electronics.repair,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
Replies: 965
Views: 37,689
Posted By Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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David Looser wrote:

The real benefit of -ve modulation was AGC. With -ve modulation sync tips
correspond to 100% modulation and make an easy source for the AGC bias. With
+ve modulation sync...
Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi) February 6th 12, 03:59 PM Posted to sci.electronics.repair,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
Replies: 965
Views: 37,689
Posted By Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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J G Miller wrote:

Depending on the municipality, the water in the US could have an awful
lot less chlorine (possibly none) than that supplied by one of the big
English water companies.

Not...
Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi) February 6th 12, 03:39 PM Posted to sci.electronics.repair,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
Replies: 965
Views: 37,689
Posted By Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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Ron wrote:
Maybe inferior American water takes long to boil anyway compared with
'proper' Bwitish water ;)

That's because evironmental activists have found large quantities of
DiHydrogen...
Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi) February 6th 12, 03:19 PM Posted to sci.electronics.repair,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
Replies: 965
Views: 37,689
Posted By Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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J G Miller wrote:

Carrying a PRI relay of BBC World Service is far cheaper than
paying for NPR programming, so many smaller public radio
stations prefer this option for obvious...
Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi) February 6th 12, 03:14 PM Posted to sci.electronics.repair,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
Replies: 965
Views: 37,689
Posted By Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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Ron wrote:

Obviously water boiled with AC is far superior to water boiled with DC.
Alternating current jiggles the molecules up more.

Nothing beats the taste of tea made from water boiled over...
Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi) February 6th 12, 12:39 PM Posted to sci.electronics.repair,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
Replies: 965
Views: 37,689
Posted By Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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David Looser wrote:
The original plan, drawn up in the early '60s, was to re-engineer Bands 1
and 3 for 625-line operation once the 405-line service was switched off; but
it never happened. I...
Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi) February 6th 12, 12:34 PM Posted to sci.electronics.repair,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
Replies: 965
Views: 37,689
Posted By Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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Terry Casey wrote:

I've always wondered if somebody might have been seen furtively slipping
out of the back door of Broadcasting House that Monday afternoon before
setting off to walk down...
Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi) February 5th 12, 05:29 PM Posted to sci.electronics.repair,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
Replies: 965
Views: 37,689
Posted By Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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hwh wrote:
On 2/5/12 7:04 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
But you've got to remember that this is the country that kept 405-line
going for, I think, longer after 625 started than it had been...
Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi) February 4th 12, 04:39 PM Posted to sci.electronics.repair,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
Replies: 965
Views: 37,689
Posted By Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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Arny Krueger wrote:

When these places were wired (1910-1935), underground wiring was
prohibitively expensive. Underground became the rule in the 70's.

In those days having electricty was a...
Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi) January 31st 12, 11:09 AM Posted to uk.tech.broadcast,uk.tech.digital-tv,rec.audio.tech,uk.rec.audio,sci.electronics.repair
Replies: 965
Views: 37,689
Posted By Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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Ron wrote:

Most passengers seem to insert a card into a machine, no one checked
tickets. I asked several folks how do I pay, they just shrugged, so it
seems travel between stops wasn't worth...
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