Re: [IRCA] Too cold!

["John Fisher" <jfisher8@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ah the follies of youth, eh Don?

That was much colder than the relatively balmy days (again in the 80's) of 
DX'ing in Dave Clark's chinchilla barn with Rob Ross and others, DX'ing 
while wearing sleeping bags, but at least the receivers were warm enough not 
to need pliers! The chinchillas did keep us awake with their noise (and 
their smell).

j

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From: "Don Moman VE6JY" <ve6jy.1@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2016 6:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] Too cold!

> 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
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >   Compared with our wimpy excuses down south of "warm bed beckons", "had
> > to have a shower", "needed to walk the dog" etc.,   I think you can be
> > excused Paul (hi).
> >
> >
> >
> > At 18:14 27-11-16, you wrote:
> >
> > > Well, there comes a time when even I won't go outside and that's going 
> > > to
> > > happen alot this winter, I can already tell,.
> > >
> > > It's 9L15AM and -17 below right now, the windchill is at -25 below.
> > >
> > > Nope, not happening.. no outside DX for me this morning, plus I've got
> > > other stuff inside that needs to be done anyways.
> > >
> > > Now, if it was -15 below with no wind, I could potentially tolerate
> > > that.... for a few minutes.
> > >
> > > Paul
> > > Galena, Alaska
> > > aka East russia lol
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