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G0TEZ > FLIGHT 25.11.06 12:33l 110 Lines 4327 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: Leonardo,Otto and.....
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From: G0TEZ@GB7FCR.#16.GBR.EU
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Thanks to David, I have been to the URL about Otto Lilienthal. Informative
but no title for any book written by him aprt from the one (in German)
about the study of birdflight.
I didn't realise how, we can upset people by actually asking for
information on packet. Perhaps I am still living in the past when packet
was a way of getting help on all sorts of strange subjects.
I have mentioned, as an example, the occasion when, as a coin collector,
and etymologist, I had come into possession of a USSR 10 Rouble note.
It had the usual inscriptions on it in about six languages but, in this
case, I noticed, amongst the cyrillic and accentd Roman scripts, a wierd
script which seemed to be a 'missin link' between Roman and Cyrillic.
I asked if anyone knew what this was.
A Russian station came back, saying it was antique Armenian.
I don't think I even got any insults.
Now it is a question of someone sending you a URL. A lot of bulletins are
lifted directly from internet sites,m leading to the sort of large
bulletins which you scan, then delete.
The reason for all this is broadband which I really can't afford.
I connect over the weekend and, occasionally on Wednesdays, usually just
for packet. My 'phone bill is less than 30 quid a quarter, not 30 Pounds
per month..
David admonished me thus:-
> For goodness sake Ian, there are no pockets in a shroud. Get yourself on
> cheapo broadband and make us all happy as well as yourself! I'd have
> thought you spend almost as much on dial-up as a cheapo broadband ISP.
I know David is an OAP but people's incomes vary enormously. Take Disabled
people. I know two who are on 70 Pounds per week and two who admit to
being on 200 Pounds per week with a free car thrown in.
Two of my friends won't even have a computer in the house, both are
approaching 50 and very bright people.
No 1 is on incapacity benefit. I don't know a lot more about him.
The second is more interesting. he actually has a call sign. He had passed
one paper of the RAE and I nagged him into taking the second. He was on CB
at the time and was known to me as, together with another man (C&G
electronics) was a 'rig doctor'. At our first meeting, he asked me how to
display Lissajous figures on his twin beam scope. I was suitably
impressed.
When he got his class 'B' licence, he jumped into data Tx and FSTV. He
built his own tcvr on 23 cm and was happily exchanging pictures with two
other FSTV users in the area. When they suddenly packed in, he was left
with no one to transmit to and, the last I heard, he was about to build
3cm
gear.
Something happened.
Now he lives alone, barely goes out, maybe uses his dual bander once a
month and has no electronic equipment around. He has also said he can't
and won't afford to have a PC in the house.
I agree with him. Next year I will be an OAP and will switch to connecting
to GB7FCR twice on Sundays (if we still have packet, that is.)
I have a few New Year resolutions planned, all involving saving money.
I will keep the PC operable as long as i can. I have quite a few spares so
I should be able to use it to type letters, coppy things, anything which
doesn't involve internet.
Above all, starting now. I will never, ever ask for any information on
packet. Those days are gone.
There are only two things which really annoy me.
One is being called stupid. I don't know why that should anger me. British
mensa doesn't seem to think I am. That has been a common insult on packet.
I ahve often wondered if they would say it to my face.
The other is being called a scrounger. I have never borrowed, especially
money, in my whole life.In the case of packet, There have been people who
have sent items by post and I have sent back the cost of postage. There
are a couple of exceptions who have refused to let me know their postal
address
so I cannot send any form of recompense.. Those I do respect.
Getting back to Otto. I wonder why we were taught about him at school in
the '50s. Along with others like William Friese Greene and Fritz Haber.
Also Sir Edward Appleton and Lord Rutherford.
All the above, with the possible exception of Haber, are non persons now.
Strange...
73 - Ian, G0TEZ @ GB7FCR
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