LF: Stupid remark

["Walter Blanchard" <blanch@pncl.co.uk>]

At 11:24 21/01/02 Monday +0000, G3KEV wrote:

> The DECCA JEEP alias 5501 tx, is
> a brother of the MARCONI JEEP alias T1154.
> Surprised you did not know this. Some say JEEP should read
> JUNK

Absolute rubbish,  as usual, and insulting with it.

The T1154 was called by some a "GP" transmitter. "GP"
means "General Purpose" and that's just what it was. 
Not particularly good but considering it was rushed out in a few months
very creditable to the people who
worked day and night to get it out.

The 5501 was a special-purpose limited-user unit designed specifically to
do one job and one job only, which it does superbly.
It was never marketed and is far from a "GP" unit. You
obviously know nothing whatever about Decca equipment or how it was
used.

They were designed and built for totally different purposes by two quite
separate companies about 45 years apart so how you can call them
"brothers" I really do not know. Another example of the utter
lack of logic we expect from you.

And while I'm at it, you claim all your equipment is designed and built
by you. What's happened to all those state-of-the-art 
Japanese transceivers you were bragging about not so long ago? 
Thrown in the skip?

Walter G3JKV.