Do we have to be sorry? > >IMHO the best Italian "spumante" is that produced in the zone around the > >town of Brescia.
Well, Brecsia was the home of the man who some 'experts' think made one of my violins. I don't. I believe it was a copy made in the early c.19 in the Black Forest of southern Germany! It still sounds good, and costs me a lot less in insurance! Wine, fiddles, SDR? They are all products of old pan-European technological traditions which we should value. We should also value modern traditions. Over this festive season I have opened bottles of excellent wine from northern Italy, from Spain, Australia, New Zealand, Portugal, Hungary, and France. I would have had some wine from Wales (we do make a small quantity of fine wines here...) Cornwall and England, but due to work pressures I was too late to buy any... My son, also an RF engineer, contributed some remarkably fine Spanish Cava when he came to visit us. What I'm really trying to say is that Europe - in it's widest sense - has been responsible not only for fine musical instruments, and wines, but a great deal of the intellectual basis of this list. We shouldn't be aggressive about this, though. One of my great heroes is Bose, the c.19 Indian physicist, who was developing millimetre wave apparatus in 1890! Let's use the fellowship of our common hobby to bring us closer together, despite our many differences. Can I wish you in the language (Cymraeg) of Wales, the country in which I choose to live: Blydden Newedd Da. A Good New Year 73 es HNY Chris GW4DGU ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/ELTolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soft_radio/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
