[Boatanchors] (no subject)

[RAY FRIESS]

that's what's so good about the old radios that glow in the dark.   They will still load into ice covered lines and antennas.
Remember back when as a Novice the old timers telling about loading up bed springs, even wet strings ...   HI HI.
And ... all those nice glowing rigs warm up the shack ...  unlike transistors.   
 

 
> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 14:11:28 -0500
> From: rbethman at comcast.net
> To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] (no subject)
> 
> Jeff, David, and Richard,
> 
> Seems we folks here in Virginia went through this just this past February.
> 
> We had set a "New Record".
> 
> Today WE too have the winds. Having the radio on won't do me much good 
> for the moment. I still haven't unfrozed the feed-line that the 
> "tree-rats" got to!
> 
> Frustrating! BUT - I'm warm and comfortable. I "can" listen. Just 
> can't transmit.
> 
> Bob - N0DGN
> 
> On 12/27/2010 1:58 PM, David C. Hallam wrote:
> > Jeff,
> >
> > That is exactly why I left Fulton, NY years ago. It may be a little
> > chilly here in sunny FL, Tampa Bay, but 55 degrees is better than what
> > you have.
> >
> > Best wishes for a Happy New Year.
> >
> > David
> > KW4DH
> >
> > On 12/27/2010 1:41 PM, n2lxm at juno.com wrote:
> >> Good Afternoon,
> >>
> >>
> >> Greetings form the Frozen, Snowy Northeast. Well this is one for
> >> the record books. Winds gusting to 50 MPH, twenty four to thirty inches
> >> of snow on the ground, and four to six feet snow drifts. No snow plows in
> >> site yet, and maybe not till tomorrow. But on the bright side. I am home
> >> alone, XYL got to her job( Nurse ) and can't get home. So I have the wood
> >> stove going, the radios on, and the work bench powered up. Plenty of
> >> food, drink and fire wood. So as they would say" I Am GOOD To Go !!".
> >> Every hour or so I go out and dig for awhile, with the wind gusts I chill
> >> fast, come in, warm up by the fire, have a warm drink and do it all over
> >> again. What's the definition of insanity. To all of you who are in warmer
> >> climates, You Lucky Dog.
> >>
> >>
> >> Jeff N2LXM
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