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At least they are all Ameican.That's a heck of a lot more than you can
say.They do all turn over too.I just now fired one of them up.
cuhulin

I have been to Paris twice before.Paris,Texas that is.No need to avoid
Paris,Texas.Paris,Texas is a heck of a lot better than paris,Frogland
can ever hope to be.No doubt there were some guys from Paris,Texas in
World War Two who helped liberate paris,Frogland.
cuhulin

Dear Mr. Andrew Oakley:
It was a pleasure.
It seems to me that in Japan the FM broadcast band extends down towards
75 MHz.
Please file away in your mind the fact that you have experienced two
atypical areas of the Republic. I have lived in, or visited, many places -
especially in my early days when I was working in radio astronomy. SW was
important during those travels. Consider a vacation to coincide with the
great Dayton, Ohio radio show in the Spring. Drive on into Indiana and see
some of the most productive farms in the world. Take the long drive north
to Michigan's UP with lots to see on the way - a state with as much
coastline as the island of Great Britain. You could return through Canada
on the east side of the lakes.

There are areas where one religion predominates. However, within six
miles of where I live, on an antenna farm well into the country, there is a
Mosque, at least two Synagogues, a couple of temples of Indian religions,
and many, very-different-from-each-other Christian churches.

Come visit the Hartland. Bring a radio. If you have a radio amateur
license, it will be even more fun and interesting. If you do not have a
license, take the very easy exam and get one while at Dayton.

Warm regards, Mac
.... who once had a G5 call
--
J. Mc Laughlin; Michigan U.S.A.
Home:
"Andrew Oakley" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 08:49:28 -0400, "J. Mc Laughlin"
wrote:
TV Channels 5 and 6 broadcast in the 76-88 MHz band. 75 MHz exactly is
an
aircraft beacon frequency and some land mobile is distributed either side
of
75 MHz. TV channels 2-4 extend from 54 MHz to 72 MHz. TV channel 1 does
not exist.
The sound channel for a broadcast TV is at the upper end of its 6 MHz
wide allocation. Thus most FM broadcast receivers are able to hear
channel
6's audio.

Ah! Now it makes sense. Thanks for the details.

Being a Midwesterner, it is a mystery why one would wish to have a
honeymoon in NYC. Next time, see the real USA.

Wife's choice, and not a bad one really. NY was sort of like Paris but
much more conservative.

I also spent a week's holiday (vacation) driving through California in
January, sticking to the rural areas and avoiding SF/LA. Drove through
the central valley and headed up through the hills towards Leavitt
Peak which was breathtaking. Was also nice to chat to people who, like
me, were country folk. Mind you, they do like their Christianity
there, don't they?

--
Andrew Oakley

wrote in message
oups.com...
... One of these days, you'll get one to turn over....

One of his cars, or one of his girlfriends?

One of his cars, obviously. In the context of his girlfriends the
appropriate phrase would be "roll" over.

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 09:51:07 +0100, Andrew Oakley
wrote:

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:26:04 -0400, "Michael Lawson"
wrote:
What about FM?? Is it strictly local, or do some BBC stations
occupy the same part of the dial all over the place??

I forgot to ask - What's with 75-87.5MHz being able to hear TV audio
in the US?

When I visited New York on honeymoon last month, I bought myself a
Sony ICF-35 as a second SW radio. It covered FM down to 75MHz which
was completely new to me. Also I discovered that I could hear TV
stations on this lower band!

Do some TV stations specifically rebroadcast their audio for radio
listeners in this frequency, or is this just a happy side-effect of
still using the VHF band for TV? (All UK terrestrial TV is UHF
nowadays IIRC).

It's a rather lovely feature and a shame we don't do it in the UK.

There are a number of radios that have been built that support FM from
76-108 Mhz, so they will work anywyhere in the world. You have one.

In some parts of the world (like Japan), the FM band is roughly
76-90Mhz. In most of the world, the space between 75 and 88 Mhz is
assigned to VHF television.

VHF channel 5 is 76-82Mhz, and VHF channel 6 is 82-88 Mhz.

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 16:14:24 GMT, "-=jd=-"
wrote:

On Sat 20 Aug 2005 11:00:38a, Andrew Oakley
wrote in message :
Wife's choice, and not a bad one really. NY was sort of like Paris but
much more conservative.
{THUD!!} That was my jaw impacting the floor.
Note to self: avoid Paris like the "plague"...

Oh, Paris is lovely. It could, of course, just be that I just know
Paris better, but I found NY a bit... well, quiet. I'm not one for
nightlife (I don't drink alcohol, for one thing), but in Paris (or any
European town, including London etc) you can't avoid the nightlife;
every street has a pub/bar/cafe and in the evenings the entire city
centre is heaving with people. In New York everything outside Times
Square seemed dead after 8pm. I'm not complaining, since I actually
enjoyed being able to walk around without lots of drunk people
hassling me, but it was so very different from the European
experience. For instance, in my nearby town of Cheltenham (which has a
reputation for being "posh") I just wouldn't walk around in town after
10pm because of all the drunk people.

For instance, in NY after spending an entire week walking around the
city I can only remember noticing ONE bar/pub. In any European town it
would be amazing if you found one street without one bar/pub! Maybe NY
bars blend in to the background? Or maybe there are specific nightlife
districts such as Times Square - maybe it's just planned better
compared to the historical higgledy-piggledy nature of European towns?

What I found similar between NY and Paris was the architecture and the
landmark monuments. Paris and NY both have a large number of
modern-era landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of
Liberty, or the Grand Arch of the Defence and the Empire State
Building. London is a lot older, the landmark buildings are things
like the Tower of London (a medium sized medieval castle).

Peak which was breathtaking. Was also nice to chat to people who, like
me, were country folk. Mind you, they do like their Christianity
there, don't they?
Ehhh... something like that.

What I found really odd everywhere I've been in the USA (Huston, NY,
Boston and California) is that there is virtually no pagan/wiccan
culture.

In the UK there is this underlying understanding that Christianity is
a "new" religion introduced only two thousand years ago and which only
really got going about a thousand years ago. For instance, the church
in the village where I grew up is only nine hundred years old. Whereas
there are pagan standing stones which are three or four thousand years
old, and the local government council in my parent's village recently
gave a grant to rebuild the pagan meeting place in the forest (really
nicely done, with seven tree stumps encircling a wooden stage
platform, and six rows of benches up along the hillside- can be used
for all kinds of outdoor performances, but essentially it's a coven
ground).

What this means is that in the UK you get a lot of shops selling pagan
trinkets, such as pentacle jewellery, wickerwork, crystals,
alternative medicene, incense, that kind of thing. These shops are not
at all difficult to find, they tend to be busy giftshops in prime
tourist areas. Additionally in older towns you get dedicated
witchcraft shops, selling books, ingredients, and a larger range of
trinkets.

The only places in the UK you'll find selling Christian artifacts
(crucifixes, rosaries, scrolls with passages from the Bible etc) are
shops right next to, or inside, cathedrals, or dedicated Christian
bookshops, maybe only one per large town.

Now I've never found ONE shop in the USA selling pagan gifts. Whereas
lots of tourist shops seem to sell crucifix jewellery or small statues
of the virgin Mary or Jesus, for instance. Also my wife is really into
pagan crystals, and I could only find one shop in the whole week I was
driving through California which sold crystals, and that was a geology
shop, not a witchcraft shop.

It was just kind of spooky to see that the USA seemed to take
Christianity so seriously, even in tourist areas, even in modern
cities such as New York.

Maybe this is the Catholic influence? But there are lots of European
countries which are predominantly Catholic too, such as France, and
they don't have this huge imbalance between paganism and new
religions.

--
Andrew Oakley andrew/atsymbol/aoakley/stop/com
Gloucestershire, UK

Down town Jackson,Mississippi (I live in Jackson over on the West side
of Jackson,about four and a half miles West of down town
Jackson,Hey,check out that down town sky cam at www.wapt.com if that
stupid webcam is working) is deader than a door nail at night times
every since they tore down all of the down town Jackson movie theaters
and they made Capitol Street into a stupid one way street.There is sort
of a move afoot by them d..n stupid bas...ds to sort of kind of
"reverse" their DAMAGE to down town Jackson of since back in the
1960's.I doubt if it will work though.When meself and my family moved to
Jackson in the 1940's,I thought Jackson was the biggest City in the
World.Now,Jackson has gotten too d..n big!
cuhulin

The old paris,Frogland eiffel tower coffee shop is in
N'Awlins,Louisiana.It is a coffee shop (or something like that) in
N'Awlins.I have driven right by it a few times before.I will be in
N'Awlins next month visiting the D-Day Museum again and my cousins.
www.ddaymuseum.org
cuhulin