Re: [IRCA] I'm Back on list

[The Kaskey Family <kaskeyfamily@xxxxxxxxx>]

What a story Steve.  Thank goodness you guys survived.  Glad you are in good shape back in Iowa.  Good Luck!

don k.



Stephen Hawkins wrote:

> IRCA,
>
> The move to Boone has been completed or as much as it can be until we finish
> painting some of the new house.
>
> The AM Band sure sounds differant from here.
>
> My email address ng0g@xxxxxxxx is back on.
>
> The trip was uneventful other then one incident in the mountains the first
> day. We had planned to leave the moment the truck was packed and just go to
> the first motel past Sacramento for the night.  We could not find any place
> and in Truckee at about 6000 ft at 2100, my wife sat her knitting basket on
> the floor of the truck and moved it with her foot.  This action pressed the
> knitting basket up against the trucks fire extinguisher.  Who ever had
> installed the fire extinguisher had neglected to insert the safety pin and it
> went off inside the truck.  A fire extinguisher going off, and dumping it's
> entire contents inside an extremely large moving truck, towing a large
> trailer,  being driven by you, while in a state of extreme exhaustion, in the
> dark, high up in the mountains, is a thrill you have to experience to even
> remotely understand.  After finally finding a gas station with a vacume that
> I could get the truck close to, I  cleaned out most of the fine white powder
> from the extinguisher and pressed on to Sparks Nevada where, near midnight,
> near death from exhaustion, we found a motel.
>
> My new QTH has turned out to be a very quiet location.  Extremely low
> electrical noise.  I am unpacking radios and antenne as fast as I can.
> --
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> Stephen Hawkins NG0G
> ng0g@xxxxxxxx
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