Cecil, served with a MSGT Moore, at Keesler AFB, 1963, he was a
ham...??? 73`s Gene

Gene wrote:
Cecil, served with a MSGT Moore, at Keesler AFB, 1963, he was a
ham...??? 73`s Gene

There are so many Moore's that I have no idea who I am kin to.
I don't look anything like Archie Moore, for instance. Outside
of London, England, the city with the most Moore's is Houston.
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

Cecil, W5DXP wrote:
"There are so many Moore`s that I have no idea who I am kin too."

There is a John Moore in my Houston Area Amateur Radio Club who says he
is unrelated to Cecil, he is one of several Moore`s in the club, all
claiming not to be related to Cecil. John Moore, however, does claim to
have attended Texas A&M with Cecil.

When names were chosen, it seems more would likely choose the name Moore
than the name Less. Why are there not more "Mosts"?

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI

Richard Harrison wrote:
Cecil, W5DXP wrote:
"There are so many Moore`s that I have no idea who I am kin too."

There is a John Moore in my Houston Area Amateur Radio Club who says he
is unrelated to Cecil, he is one of several Moore`s in the club, all
claiming not to be related to Cecil.

Strangely, most Moore's claim not to be related to me. ;-)

John Moore, however, does claim to have attended Texas A&M with Cecil.

Yep, I've got the yearbook to prove it. John's a good guy.

When names were chosen, it seems more would likely choose the name Moore
than the name Less. Why are there not more "Mosts"?

Actually, when the English government decreed that everyone had
to adopt a last name, a host of people who lived out on The Moors
adopted that last name. Some of them may not have been related
even back then, except by geography.

Richard, your last name might have been adopted by someone whose
father was named Harry. Smith probably came from Blacksmith,
Potter from a pottery maker, Johnson from John's son, etc.

The Discovery Channel's "Longitude" featured the considerable
talents of John Harrison, a cabinet maker more famous for his
timepieces than for his cabinets. (Wonder why they didn't just
use the GPS system? :-)
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

Cecil, W5DXP wrote:
"The Discovery Channel`s "Longitude" featured the considerable talents
of John Harrison, a cabinet maker more famous for his timepieces than
for his cabinets. Wonder why they didn`t just use the GPS system (funny
face)?"

I`d like to claim kinship with John Harrison who built the first
chronometer accurate enough to compute longitude, but I can`t.
Parliament had offered a huge cash award for such a timepiece or other
means of accurately determning longitude. John proved he had won, then
tried for years to get full paynent from parliament. Finally John got an
audience with the King who declared: "By God, you shall get your
payment!", and he was paid. Now, John Harrison is a big feature at the
National Maritime Museum at Greenwich. Some of the wooden clocks, gears
and all, that John built are still in use and keeping time well. The
chronometer is more like a large pocket watch.

GPS is huge. You can immediately know within a few feet exactly where
you are, unless you happened to be the target.

There are boat trips on the Thames between London and Greenwich. If the
weather is good, it is very pleasant.

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI

I saw that program on public TV some time back, and highly recommend it
-- it was very interesting.

Some years ago I saw a display on timekeeping at the Smithsonian which
explained and gave an example of each of the advances and innovations in
clockmaking which improved timekeeping accuracy. The last item at the
end of the display was a few-dollar Timex digital watch which, the
caption said, was more accurate than any of the mechanical predecessors.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Richard Harrison wrote:
Cecil, W5DXP wrote:
"The Discovery Channel`s "Longitude" featured the considerable talents
of John Harrison, a cabinet maker more famous for his timepieces than
for his cabinets. Wonder why they didn`t just use the GPS system (funny
face)?"

I`d like to claim kinship with John Harrison who built the first
chronometer accurate enough to compute longitude, but I can`t.
Parliament had offered a huge cash award for such a timepiece or other
means of accurately determning longitude. John proved he had won, then
tried for years to get full paynent from parliament. Finally John got an
audience with the King who declared: "By God, you shall get your
payment!", and he was paid. Now, John Harrison is a big feature at the
National Maritime Museum at Greenwich. Some of the wooden clocks, gears
and all, that John built are still in use and keeping time well. The
chronometer is more like a large pocket watch.

GPS is huge. You can immediately know within a few feet exactly where
you are, unless you happened to be the target.

There are boat trips on the Thames between London and Greenwich. If the
weather is good, it is very pleasant.

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI