Re: [amsat-bb] Obsolete Transistor Needed

[G8IFF/KC8NHF <nigel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:

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> If you get shipped a box of rocks instead of a radio, you are out of luck.

Amateurs on an e-mail list should be able to trust one another.

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> There are customs hassles, shipping hassles, 

Take it to the post office. They will sort it.

> a bigger transit time,

Takes 6 days US to UK.

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> Besides the point, who are any of us to give this guy grief for how he 
> wants to conduct business? He slandered no one, no country, nothing 
> offensive at all. He's simply looking for a part, and asked for help.

I didn't slander anyone or name anybody. It's a general observation. 
Americans in general don't seem to be very worldly.

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> PSS I'm American, but not afraid of other countries. I even married a 
> Dane. In Denmark. Ceremony was in Danish and German. I like Europe 
> just fine. My grandfather didn't like it as much though. Of course he 
> saw it from the deck of a destroyer. ----

I'm British with an American wife.

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