27-12-2011, 12:29 PM
I missed the "tat" bit....I guess that "tat" is also subjective, I live in a wooden house with a corrugated roof, the man on the hill might call it a shed and possibly tat but for me it's the best and he can go and stuff himself.
With all these old Comms. sets it is easy to pick holes in this that and everything else about them when comparing them to what we expect these days out of a receiver. I personaly find that there is a tangible link between these old sets and my parents generation, two of my ancestors/relatives, one from my Mums side and one from my Dads side took off from some now long forgotten airfield in Lincolnshire in Lancaster Bombers in two seperate missions, non of the crews returned on those nights. I would suspect that most of the ex wd stuff we encounter never actually saw action as such but there is still that connection with those days, days most of us have never had to endure and suffer through.
So maybe the old ex wd receiver is not tat after all, it depends on how we think about it and its past. Memorial or mess (tat) ?
Lawrence.
With all these old Comms. sets it is easy to pick holes in this that and everything else about them when comparing them to what we expect these days out of a receiver. I personaly find that there is a tangible link between these old sets and my parents generation, two of my ancestors/relatives, one from my Mums side and one from my Dads side took off from some now long forgotten airfield in Lincolnshire in Lancaster Bombers in two seperate missions, non of the crews returned on those nights. I would suspect that most of the ex wd stuff we encounter never actually saw action as such but there is still that connection with those days, days most of us have never had to endure and suffer through.
So maybe the old ex wd receiver is not tat after all, it depends on how we think about it and its past. Memorial or mess (tat) ?
Lawrence.
