"Reg Edwards" wrote in message ...
I've been stating John Cleese's 'bleeding obvious' for years but nobody
seems to take a scrap of notice.

All the power which leaves the transmitter MUST be dissipated in the load -
there's nowhere else for it to go.

(Apart, of course, from the insignificant fraction of an S-unit, even on
Roy's meter, which gets lost in the line).

If anybody should mention re-re-re-reflections or power waves, I shall
'squeam' and 'squeam' and 'squeam' as did "Just William" 's 5-year-old
pretty little golden-haired girl friend who lived next door.

For the younger generation of US citizens who may not have heard of 12-year
old William, he was the middle-class, naughty but well-intentioned,
10-year-old leading character in Richmal Crompton's series of "Just William"
books.

When the cry went out...Willliaaam all went quiet
hoping that the accumulator in the radio would not give up.

Heinkels and Messersmidts, V1's and V2's in the azure blue skies over the
sunny green fields and pretty, finished, English villages, where William and
friend Ginger enjoyed their schooldays, finally put paid to the English
class system of farm-labourers living in tied thatched cottages and the
English Country-gentlemen farmers.

Used to count the doodle bugs that came from the N.E. at the same time
I countyed the flares emitted from returning fortresses.
Land army girls were to old for me.
Who on earth picks the malt hops now, that used to serve as a vacation
in the country for me?

Kids now have to be content with porn and football all day on the telly and
on most pages of the daily papers while becoming obese gorging Mac's
many-layered hamburgers while standing up.

And now, can you believe it, Morse Code is on its way out !

Could that mean that the audio will now take over those
quiet frequencies when the last O.T.leaves?


Art