Hello, Richard.   
      
   Saturday August 06 2011 at 14:19, you wrote to me:   
      
    RW> Bristol going north up the interstate you can hit it.  I've still got   
    RW> it programmed in my mobile rig in case we get up through there again.   
      
   I'll have to ask a friend of mine who is moving from here back to Richmond   
   since his wife just got a good job there.  As for the "commercials", yeah,   
   some of those guys have some seriously funny stuff programmed in there.  On   
   the 146.800 machine out of Marietta, Georgia, run by the Kennahoochie ARC, on   
   timing out the repeater, it will say "GOTCHA!" and then you'll hear Vincent   
   Price laughing like an evil madman.  Up here, the local club is too cheap to   
   replace the nearly 40 year old repeater that's having problems.  That and   
   they're hemorrhaging members but that's a story for another place.   
      
    RW> memory channel department. SOmething like that rig would be way cool   
    RW> though for portable stuff.   
      
   I'm betting that there is probably a speech synth add-on for the 897.  It   
   seems to have everything else available for it!  By the way, when typing to   
   you, I always try to keep in mind that you're using a reader for messages and   
   I try to make sure that my messages will be easier for the reader to read it   
   back to you properly.   
      
    RW> YEp, I sure hear enough of them on 14300 khz.  THey're   
    RW> popular little rigs.   
      
   I hear a lot of the 8x7 rigs on the air as they all seem to be popular.   
   However, you won't hear me on the air for a while: I sold off my IC-718, tuner   
   and desk mic yesterday.   
      
    RW> Back on topic, you folks in northern latitudes might have   
    RW> seen some aurora last night I see thanks to all the funky   
    RW> magnetic activity and a coronal mass ejection which impacted earth   
    RW> about 1800 utc yesterday. Spaceweather.com said it might impact gps   
    RW> satellite and the like last night on an email I saw forwarded to me.   
      
   I was noticing problems with GPS last night; my TomTom was having problems   
   keeping a signal acquired even though it had nine satellites in its   
   acquisition signal.   
      
   This morning, it is a steamy, slightly cool, and drizzly morning.  A good   
   morning for me to spend cleaning up the house on my day off. :)   
      
   Later,   
   Sean   
      
   ... Let the past drift away with the water. - Japanese saying   
   --- GoldED/2 3.0.1   
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