[SixClub] QRP and Small Engines

[K8RI (Roger on six)]

On 1/31/2011 9:35 AM, donroden at hiwaay.net wrote:
> Quoting "K8RI (Roger on six)"<50MHz at rogerhalstead.com>:
>
>> Course I have to take into consideration how much money I wasted on cars
>> over the 33 plus years I was working...
>
> Like Carl said .... " life is too short for QRP or small engines. "
The key word was wasted.  I didn't need a new car every couple of years 
and could have put it into a good car to begin. That would have left me 
with enough money for toys like radios, airplanes, and guns.  Come to 
think of it I put a lot of money into those as well, but those were a 
lot more fun. Even won the zone title in trap shooting, but that was 
before bifocals and arthritis. I lost track of the 100 straights I shot 
and the last time I went out I think I broke about 12 out of 25.   I 
should have been able to do that accidentally. <sigh>

130 hours a year in a plane that burns 14.5 gallons per hour is almost 
1900 gallons of 100 LL av gas per year.That's about 200 gallons more per 
year than driving 30,000 miles.  OTOH when I figured the costs of going 
out to visit my daughter in Colorado the cheapest was to go rent a car, 
a close second was go commercial coach class on the airlines, the most 
expensive was to drive my own car.  With my wire and I in the Deb the 
cost was about the same as coach class.  With me alone it got pretty pricey.

Thing is, out as far as Denver (or Orlando) I could normally beat the 
airlines for trip time even with a stop over for gas.  One of the things 
that made the car so expensive was the meals and lodging on the way out 
and back.  That and the cost per mile of driving a car while still 
paying interest is pretty bad and you avoid all those hassles in the 
airplane, or used to.  Now I pick the small airports where it's easy to 
get around.

73

Roger (K8RI)
> Don W4DNR
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