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24th Dec 2018, 10:49 pm | #41 | |
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Re: What would forum members ask Santa for?
An ever-lasting version of the EM34, or two. Or three.... Same again EM71A. Signal strength meters are fine as indicators but don't begin to approach the charm.
A bumper pack of all sensible values and spread of wattages of Beyschlag/Piher/whatever metal film resistors to keep everything running sweet, plus ditto spread of blue translucent sleeve axial Philips elkos. Quote:
That Lightning will need a good spread of drip-trays for its fueldraulics! For a 'plane, I'll go for a Tupolev-85 and a big hanger- those amazing engines plus the only thing more fascinating than an American bomber filled with thermionics would be a Russian bomber filled with thermionics. |
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24th Dec 2018, 11:28 pm | #42 |
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Re: What would forum members ask Santa for?
All I want is to continue with the improved health I now enjoy after a very substantial weight loss that has reversed or cured a couple of potentially life changing conditions.
That way I might be in with a fighting chance of enjoying getting to grips with the queue of challenges awaiting me when we finally get the house alterations finished and I get my den/workshop/hidey hole! And for everyone else to enjoy as much health and fitness as they possibly can. Actually that as much as anything, for us all to get the most out of life. A. |
24th Dec 2018, 11:59 pm | #43 |
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Re: What would forum members ask Santa for?
You're right, of course- all this indulgent flights-of-fancy stuff around inanimate objects pales into irrelevance besides good health, happiness and family,
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25th Dec 2018, 7:44 am | #44 |
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Re: What would forum members ask Santa for?
The ability to sleep in past 6AM would be very handy these days
I would also like to have just a couple more days with people I held dear to me that have passed in my lifetime,
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25th Dec 2018, 8:06 am | #45 |
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Re: What would forum members ask Santa for?
Id ask for a working Type VII uboat and trained crew (who speak English), and endless fuel and spares.
Ditto Mitchell B25 bomber. But...I'd settle happily for the loss of the need to wear specs and for my dog's back leg to be restored to health again. David
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25th Dec 2018, 8:39 am | #46 |
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Re: What would forum members ask Santa for?
Ah, if we’re into fantasies about aeroplanes, make mine a flight-ready Blackburn B.48 “Firecrest”…
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25th Dec 2018, 9:39 am | #47 |
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Re: What would forum members ask Santa for?
Oh yes, without a doubt. MANY is the time I wished I could have made a simple 'click' to show my appreciation of a post without having to contrive a response. This would not stop me writing if I had something to add of meaning and interest.
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25th Dec 2018, 10:21 am | #48 |
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Re: What would forum members ask Santa for?
Don't bring me anything but take away green house gas.
Save the planet, Santa.
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25th Dec 2018, 11:23 am | #49 |
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Re: What would forum members ask Santa for?
Like.
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25th Dec 2018, 3:51 pm | #50 |
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Re: What would forum members ask Santa for?
A time machine so that I could go back and not make one of the most stupid mistakes of my life!
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25th Dec 2018, 4:44 pm | #51 |
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Re: What would forum members ask Santa for?
Would love about 200 BSR X5H cartridges and about 200 BSR X5M cartridges - free of course - it would save time building pre-amps !!
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25th Dec 2018, 5:52 pm | #52 |
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Re: What would forum members ask Santa for?
A new pair of working ears please, failing that a brc 2000 CTV that's eluded me for years.
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25th Dec 2018, 6:01 pm | #53 |
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Re: What would forum members ask Santa for?
Hope you got it sorted out in time, sometimes these things haunt you forever, mine was flunking the eleven plus, I let that failure shape part of my life but I survived ok.
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25th Dec 2018, 8:40 pm | #54 |
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Re: What would forum members ask Santa for?
A good nights sleep! It takes me 3 hours or more to get off and then I awake on a regular basis.
Stupid thing is I was fine till I moved here. No more radio gear as I have rather enough.
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26th Dec 2018, 1:30 am | #55 |
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Re: What would forum members ask Santa for?
The bargain-price Eico valve tester I was outbid on at Xmas Eve!
Thinking through electrical or mechanical problems sends me to sleep quite reliably, especially when there's maths involved.
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26th Dec 2018, 1:50 am | #56 |
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Re: What would forum members ask Santa for?
Think I'd quite fancy a Baird 700, Philips G6 or a Thorn 2000. Failing that the continued good health of me and my family!
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26th Dec 2018, 10:10 am | #57 |
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Re: What would forum members ask Santa for?
A top of the range RGD radiogram from 1938/39. ( 110 gns ) at that date!
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26th Dec 2018, 11:37 am | #58 |
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Re: What would forum members ask Santa for?
Loan of the team of magical reindeer for mid-January, please. They'll be well rested by then, and given the volume of deliveries they make on December 25th it should be a doddle for them to transport 3000-odd books and our remaining 300 or so radios etc. to Norfolk without any mishaps, even though 170 lb. radiograms may be a little outside their usual remit.
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31st Dec 2018, 12:37 pm | #59 |
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Re: What would forum members ask Santa for?
more space!
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1st Jan 2019, 3:43 pm | #60 |
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Re: What would forum members ask Santa for?
The lack of specs DID happen to me - years ago had to wear specs as a condition for driving but now age has corrected the problem so I no longer am legally required too - weird eh?
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