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Re: [IRCA] Too cold!

I had Brian visit Victoria twice -- there is a DXer we lost way too soon. 

Colin Newell - CoffeeCrew.com - VA7WWV - Victoria - BC

> On Nov 27, 2016, at 3:36 PM, Don Moman VE6JY <ve6jy.1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I remember in the distant past.... in the 80's I expect... with fellow
> CIDX'ers Larry Gadallah and Brian Pimblett, freezing our butts (and most
> other extremities) in an unheated barn in -30 something central Alberta in
> midwinter chasing mw dx.  Ah, but we had a tent inside the barn - oh that
> helped.  If anything it had a negative "R" factor.  Choking on fumes from
> the catalytic tent heater and gnawing on frozen bologna sandwiches....
> those were the days.  We were young and.... enthused... I guess.
> 
> Brian's FRG-7 drifted so far off in the cold that the SSB oscillators took
> the signal way out the passband.  Larry and I both had Drake R-7's which
> fared some better.  But they all needed channel lock pliers to turn the
> tuning knob!
> 
> If only the Perseus and Netbooks had been invented back then, remote
> recording and the like would have made life so much easier.
> 
> 73 Don
> VE6JY
> 
> 
> 
> 
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