08-30-14 09:59 Daryl Stout wrote to ED VANCE about Re: Eating Places   
      
    DS> @MSGID: <5402FB84.1085.windowsb@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    DS> Ed,   
   Howdy! Daryl,   
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    DS>   This guy is also a ham radio operator, in his 70's, who still   
    DS> drives his motorcycle to work every day...and goes to south   
    DS> Florida in the dead of winter to work low power Morse Code (QRP   
    DS> CW) on HF to Canada. He says that "you can hear those VA and VE   
    DS> stations bristle when he tells them of the beautiful weather   
    DS> he's having"...yet, they're likely in a blizzard and around 0   
    DS> degrees!!   
      
   I remember a contact I made with a Canadian Ham in the Early Spring   
   and He told me He has been going up to His summer home on the weekends   
   fixing the plumbing that got frozen over the Winter and hasn't been   
   able to operate on the Ham Bands until everything is repaired.   
      
   One Spring I was in Memphis, Tennessee and noticed a Lilac Bush   
   blooming, but when I got back to Indiana it was still cold and all the   
   trees were bare and so was my Lilac bushes.   
      
   While I was listening on my radio I overheard a Ham say He was from up   
   North and has been living in Florida about three years.   
      
   When He moved there He could get out in the Ocean in January and   
   February and it felt good, but now he is adjusted to the weather in   
   Florida and if he went in the Ocean now in Jan or Feb it was too cold   
   for him.   
      
   ... Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?   
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