Stephen M.H. Lawrence wrote:

"Brian Colwell" wrote:
| You could do a
| helluva lot worse than having Canada as your neighbor !

That's "neighbour," you hoser.


It had to be said. Thank you. He's obviously a victim of the Hollywood
trashmasters.




mike

Gray Shockley wrote:

BOYCOTT CANADA!



I can think of something better to boycott.



[plonk]




Good taste always wins out...

Are you any relation to the Shockley of Transistor fame?





mike

"m II" wrote in message
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Stephen M.H. Lawrence wrote:

Oh, yeah, I'm taking the old FRG-7 along, with 100
feet of wire, and a big bunch of "D" sized batteries.
Just think: Two of my favorite pastimes, and I get
to combine them all at once!

How long do you get on a set of batteries? I've never tried them in that
radio. I've been thinking of getting a 12v gel-cell like used in
emergency lighting for powering the set. They don't spill like regular
lead acid batteries.


You can get a sealed lead-acid 12V battery that are made for portable depth
finders, comes with charger too and usually only $20. A bit smaller than a
motorcycle batter.

"MnMikew" wrote in message

MN rules! I have a cabin in NW Wisconsin and its equally as nice up there.
I
couldnt see living anywhere else. Now if they can just do something about
all the liberals here. :-)

Good luck! Mike lol

"Stephen M.H. Lawrence" wrote in Let's not forget
the *superb* fishing. On Friday, I'm off for 3 days of
fishing
on Lake Pepin. The walleyes have spawned (hopefully), and will be moving
in to the shallows. If luck is on my side, we'll have some tasty fillets
in
the
deep freeze (minus a couple kept fresh for lunch on Sunday).

Ya sure, you betcha......

73,

Good luck Steve. you bum!

"MnMikew" wrote in message
...

MN rules! I have a cabin in NW Wisconsin and its equally as nice up there.
I
couldnt see living anywhere else.

Me either, and I've been a whole bunch of places. Where's your cabin? My
sister had a place in Balsam Lake, about an hour and a half drive from me.
Too bad she had to sell it when she moved to AZ.

I could probably live in northern California, but the median price of homes
out there is prohibitively expensive, plus I prefer to live in a place
that's been tectonically dead for most of the past billion or so years. Love
Flagstaff too, but it's very difficult to find homes for sale there now.

I love NW Wisconsin and spend a lot of time there in the summer and fall.
Especially the Apostle Islands. I go up there every year in the early
autumn, and usually camp somewhere on the way up, like in Siren or the Lac
Court Oreilles area. Now THAT is some beautiful scenery... Superior's south
shore... old lighthouses... Bayfield, one of the nicest Victorian-era towns
in the whole state... and cheese, oh yes, cheese from the Crex Meadows
dairies. Gotta love it.

Jackie

"Stephen M.H. Lawrence" wrote in message
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Let's not forget the *superb* fishing. On Friday, I'm off for 3 days of
fishing
on Lake Pepin. The walleyes have spawned (hopefully), and will be moving
in to the shallows. If luck is on my side, we'll have some tasty fillets
in
the
deep freeze (minus a couple kept fresh for lunch on Sunday).

Hey, good luck! Hope you get a bunch of them. I was down by Lake Pepin last
month and saw about a half-dozen bald eagles in the area. Walleye, now that
is some great eating-- for some reason, I've never had too much luck
catching them. Maybe it is because I try to avoid the premiere walleye lake
in central Minnesota, Mille Lacs, because it seems like every other
fisherperson and their entire extended family is on that lake from May to
November, and no one's telling where they're biting. Bah.

My star catch was a 7 lb. largemouth bass that I caught out of a lake just
north of Bemidji. That was some fun. It took 45 minutes for me to tire that
guy out, and I was only using 8 lb. test line! It bit me for my trouble.
Bass are great fighters, so much fun to catch, and they can be good eating
if you keep the smaller ones and cook 'em fresh. No scaling and just remove
the backbone, voila, you're good to go.

So many of my childhood memories have to do with fishing. You almost can't
help that if you grow up here. I was raised in St. Paul, close to the
Mississippi, so fishing the Old Muddy was a staple activity on many weekends
of our young lives in those pre-Internet, pre-VCR and pre-computer game
days.

We used to catch catfish, carp and buffalo fish out of the Mississippi.
Those things would bite on anything, and I mean anything, like even pieces
of tinfoil. My dad would lend us some of his fishing equipment (usually the
crap that got stuck to the bottom of his tackle box) but insisted that we
leave his good lures* alone if we were going catfishing. So we'd hop on our
bikes and start off downhill to the river, our fishing poles strapped to our
backs next to backpacks filled with lunches, pop, sunscreen, OFF bug
repellent, and a can of Green Giant corn kernals. We would string a bunch of
corn kernals on a hook, toss it into the river and voila, a big, ugly ten
pounder'd be on your line before you know it. After several hours of landing
big ones from the Old Muddy, we'd hop back on our bikes and head uphill all
the way home; sunburnt, mosquito-bitten and full of fish stories for our
folks. Life's good here, you betcha!

Jackie
Who is really looking forward to Minnesota's Holy Day of Obligation: Fishing
Opener.

* Rapalas.

"Stephen M.H. Lawrence" wrote in message
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Oh, yeah, I'm taking the old FRG-7 along, with 100
feet of wire, and a big bunch of "D" sized batteries.
Just think: Two of my favorite pastimes, and I get
to combine them all at once!

There you go! Ah yes. I am often able to combine stargazing and DXing in one
night too. Let us know what catches you get-- both fish and radio stations!!

Jackie

"m II" wrote in message
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| Stephen M.H. Lawrence wrote:
|
| Oh, yeah, I'm taking the old FRG-7 along, with 100
| feet of wire, and a big bunch of "D" sized batteries.
| Just think: Two of my favorite pastimes, and I get
| to combine them all at once!
|
| How long do you get on a set of batteries? I've never tried them in that
| radio. I've been thinking of getting a 12v gel-cell like used in
| emergency lighting for powering the set. They don't spill like regular
| lead acid batteries.

I've gotten a good week's use, with about 12 hours a day and headphones.
Turning on the dial lights really seems to suck the current out.
It's interesting- when I go on these little DXPeditions, I find
I don't have to crank up the AF gain to drown out TV RFI
and powerline / Fluorescent hash, so I'm sure that has a lot
to do with the batter life.

73,

Steve Lawrence
KAØPMD
Burnsville, Minnesota

(NOTE: My email address has only one "dot."
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"MnMikew" wrote:
| You can get a sealed lead-acid 12V battery that are made for portable
depth
| finders, comes with charger too and usually only $20. A bit smaller than a
| motorcycle batter.

I've thought of doing just that, but I've been 'spearmintin' with
NiMH D cells, and they seem to last forever. Plus, they fit
inside the receiver, so that saves the space that would be taken
by another piece of kit. However, when I start taking QRP to
the field, I think I'm going to have to do just that.

73,

Steve Lawrence
KAØPMD
Burnsville, Minnesota

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