Translation - RE: Color code help?

[Darwin, Keith]

Torch - that would be "flashlight" for all us Americans.

:-)

Cheers!

- Keith KD1E -

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[mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of ron_w
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 4:57 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [Elecraft] Color code help?

Hi,
      I just made a discovery today that might help others having
difficulty identifying color code bands on resistors and the
like...especially if you aren't working in natural lighting conditions.
Go buy one of those dinky LED torches and shine that on the
resistors....it makes the colors *really* stand out......far more so
than a "normal" torch.
FWIW
Cheers.......Ron ZL1TW
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[Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/KC8NHF]

You Americans really need to talk proper English like what we do.
A flash is something that stays on for a uselessly short time and then
is expired.
We have torches... they go on and on and on and...

Darwin, Keith wrote:
> Torch - that would be "flashlight" for all us Americans.
>
> :-)
>
> Cheers!
>
> - Keith KD1E -
>
>  

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[Darwin, Keith]

One of my favorites is car parts.  The hood is the bonnet.  The trunk is
the boot.  I think a fender is also different.

And of course UK women do not wear pants.

And don't ask for a bathroom.  Most public places in the UK don't have
them.

Just because they say "right" doesn't mean they think you are!

A lady in Wales said I looked shattered and wondered if I needed a kip.
Huh?


Yes, there is a difference between the English language and American and
it can make for some great fun when someone from one place visits the
other!

- Keith KD1E -

-----Original Message-----
From: Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/KC8NHF [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 8:48 AM
To: Darwin, Keith
Cc: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Translation - RE: [Elecraft] Color code help?

You Americans really need to talk proper English like what we do.
A flash is something that stays on for a uselessly short time and then
is expired.
We have torches... they go on and on and on and...

Darwin, Keith wrote:
> Torch - that would be "flashlight" for all us Americans.
>
> :-)
>
> Cheers!
>
> - Keith KD1E -
>
>  

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[Dave Sublette]

Winston Churchill once defined the United States and Great Britain as,
"Two peoples separated by a common language."

K4TO

Darwin, Keith wrote:

> One of my favorites is car parts.  The hood is the bonnet.  The trunk is
> the boot.  I think a fender is also different.
>
> And of course UK women do not wear pants.
>
> And don't ask for a bathroom.  Most public places in the UK don't have
> them.
>
> Just because they say "right" doesn't mean they think you are!
>
> A lady in Wales said I looked shattered and wondered if I needed a kip.
> Huh?
>
>
> Yes, there is a difference between the English language and American and
> it can make for some great fun when someone from one place visits the
> other!
>
> - Keith KD1E -
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/KC8NHF [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 8:48 AM
> To: Darwin, Keith
> Cc: [hidden email]
> Subject: Re: Translation - RE: [Elecraft] Color code help?
>
> You Americans really need to talk proper English like what we do.
> A flash is something that stays on for a uselessly short time and then
> is expired.
> We have torches... they go on and on and on and...
>
> Darwin, Keith wrote:
>  
>> Torch - that would be "flashlight" for all us Americans.
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> - Keith KD1E -
>>
>>  
>>    
>
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[David-470]

Oh you must be talking about the foreign exchange student from Cardiff
south Wales who in the middle of a class raised her hand ask the teacher
if she could borrow a rubber. I let you figure out what she was really
asking for

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[Andy McMullin]

On 10 Apr 2006, at 14:18, Dave Sublette wrote:

> Winston Churchill once defined the United States and Great Britain  
> as, "Two peoples separated by a common language."
>
> K4TO
>

And he also said that "a preposition is a thing never to end a  
sentence with". My favourite though is the reported exchange with  
Lady Astor:

Her ladyship -- "Sir, you are drunk!"
Sir Winston -- "and Madam you are ugly; but in the morning I'll be  
sober"

Happy Easter

--
Regards
Andy, G8TQH
http://www.rickham.net

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[Dave Sublette]

I believe the conversation continued with Lady Astor saying, "Sir, if
you were my husband, I would poison your tea."  Whereupon Sir Winston
replied,"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it!"

Andy McMullin wrote:

>
> On 10 Apr 2006, at 14:18, Dave Sublette wrote:
>
>> Winston Churchill once defined the United States and Great Britain
>> as, "Two peoples separated by a common language."
>>
>> K4TO
>>
>
> And he also said that "a preposition is a thing never to end a
> sentence with". My favourite though is the reported exchange with Lady
> Astor:
>
> Her ladyship -- "Sir, you are drunk!"
> Sir Winston -- "and Madam you are ugly; but in the morning I'll be sober"
>
> Happy Easter
>
> --Regards
> Andy, G8TQH
> http://www.rickham.net
>
>

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[Thom LaCosta]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/KC8NHF wrote:

> You Americans really need to talk proper English like what we do.
> A flash is something that stays on for a uselessly short time and then is
> expired.
> We have torches... they go on and on and on and...

So do we, but they are most often employed by angry folks in the urban areas
who feel the need to destroy property.

73,Thom-k3hrn
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[dj7mgq]

> if she could borrow a rubber

I grew up in the States, but my mother is from the south of England.

She went into spasms the first time she was in the Lake District, and
the mother of several children mentioned her "dear little buggers"
....

vy 73 de toby

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[David Honey]

Some friends of mine from just outside Boston were amused some years ago
when they were holidaying in the UK, and the landlady of the B&B asked what
time they want to be knocked up in the morning.

vy 73, David M0DHO

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[Tony Morgan-2]

Wish I'd known sooner.
Smoked a couple of resistors using my mini butane torch trying to read
the colors!
:-D

Tony W7GO

Darwin, Keith wrote:

> Torch - that would be "flashlight" for all us Americans.
>
> :-)
>
> Cheers!
>
> - Keith KD1E -
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of ron_w
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 4:57 AM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: [Elecraft] Color code help?
>
> Hi,
>       I just made a discovery today that might help others having
> difficulty identifying color code bands on resistors and the
> like...especially if you aren't working in natural lighting conditions.
> Go buy one of those dinky LED torches and shine that on the
> resistors....it makes the colors *really* stand out......far more so
> than a "normal" torch.
> FWIW
> Cheers.......Ron ZL1TW
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[k6dgw]

The version I heard had a staffer marking up a memo Winnie had written,
and noting that he had ended a sentence with a preposition.  He
reportedly penciled in the margin, "This is an insubordination up with
which I will not put."

Regarding the original subject of this thread, my wife knows nothing
about ham radio, nor does she really care beyond the fact that I enjoy
it thus giving her license to enjoy her hobbies (knitting, needlepoint
[about as expensive as ham radio] and gardening).  However, I am
colorblind and there is no light, torch, or flashlight that will make
the color codes any more readable, so she learned the code, takes the
resistors under her Ott light and sorts them for me by value.  Wasn't
necessary on the K2, of course.  Thanks Eric and Wayne.

Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98lw

Andy McMullin wrote:

>
> On 10 Apr 2006, at 14:18, Dave Sublette wrote:
>
>> Winston Churchill once defined the United States and Great Britain  
>> as, "Two peoples separated by a common language."
>>
>> K4TO
>>
>
> And he also said that "a preposition is a thing never to end a  
> sentence with". My favourite though is the reported exchange with  
> Lady Astor:
>

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[N2EY]

In a message dated 4/10/06 10:20:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [hidden email]
writes:


> I believe the conversation continued with Lady Astor saying, "Sir, if
> you were my husband, I would poison your tea."  Whereupon Sir Winston
> replied,"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it!"
>

I recall that at one point Sir Winston was in a parliament chamber or some
such - one of those grand rotunda places - and someone remarked that Sir Winston
had reportedly drunk enough brandy in his lifetime to fill up the room to the
first balcony.

Sir Winston looked up at the great domed ceiling and said:

"So much more to do....so little time......"

73 de Jim N2EY

btw - in the 1997 Cameron blockbuster "Titanic", the lookout says quite an
expletive when he first sights the iceberg. But it goes right by most Americans.
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[KBG Luxford]

And then there was the time when Winston was appointed First Sea Lord
(Secretary for the Navy).  The appointment was seen as a poisoned
chalice as there were considerable problems to be overcome.  An
unsympathetic parliamentarian goaded Winnie by asking, "Well, how goes
the Navy today?"

"Same as always, rum, sodomy and the lash."

73
Kevin
VK3DAP / ZL2DAP

Fred Jensen wrote:

> The version I heard had a staffer marking up a memo Winnie had written,
> and noting that he had ended a sentence with a preposition.  He
> reportedly penciled in the margin, "This is an insubordination up with
> which I will not put."
>
> Regarding the original subject of this thread, my wife knows nothing
> about ham radio, nor does she really care beyond the fact that I enjoy
> it thus giving her license to enjoy her hobbies (knitting, needlepoint
> [about as expensive as ham radio] and gardening).  However, I am
> colorblind and there is no light, torch, or flashlight that will make
> the color codes any more readable, so she learned the code, takes the
> resistors under her Ott light and sorts them for me by value.  Wasn't
> necessary on the K2, of course.  Thanks Eric and Wayne.
>
> Fred K6DGW
> Auburn CA CM98lw
>
> Andy McMullin wrote:
>
>>
>> On 10 Apr 2006, at 14:18, Dave Sublette wrote:
>>
>>> Winston Churchill once defined the United States and Great Britain  
>>> as, "Two peoples separated by a common language."
>>>
>>> K4TO
>>>
>>
>> And he also said that "a preposition is a thing never to end a  
>> sentence with". My favourite though is the reported exchange with  
>> Lady Astor:
>>
>
>
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