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May 19th 05, 03:27 PM

From: (Leland=A0C.=A0Scott)
On Wed, 18 May 2005 20:45:51 -0400, I AmnotGeorgeBush wrote:
They are having a tax free week here on
everything designated "hurricane supplies"
and two way radios qualify,,unfortunately, the
radios have to be under thirty bucks, but the
hand held FRS and others are flying off the
shelves. There is always activity on those
bands down here,,beaches, theme parks, car
caravans,...wait till echo starts showing up on
those bands..whoops,,,I think it already has.

I would pick up MURS radios instead of the

FRS type. They have a bit more power and at

VHF they will carry a bit further and you can

use external antennas too.

I have VHF covered.

The external antenna is nothing more that a

slightly modified Ham 2m type. You can't use

external antennas on FRS radios. Some

combo FRS and GMRS types you might be

able to do it, but they're hard to find. Also

depending on the model of MURS radio you

may be able to program in the local VHF

weather channel on 162.xxx MHz.

I listen to the report from Cedar Key.

So are you ready for the hurricane season?

I've pretty much always been well equipped down here, but since I spent
a wad of cash this time, I'm fairly confident when I say we will never
have another hurricane here. Hurricane kit is full, generators are on
standby, plenty of gas I keep rotating to keep fresh, plenty of bottled
water, medicine kit, flashlights, lanterns, candles, canned goods,
radios, batteries, new window unit A/C.....I'm getting too old to simply
be content on riding it out and waiting for services to be restored....I
took steps to make sure I'm damn comfortable. An 110 A/C unit I can run
off a generator when we're camped in the safe room was the final ticket.

You got lucky last year I think.

Plenty of folks took damage, including us, but ours was minimal.

I flew in to West

Palm Beach about a month ago to drive out to

the Indiantown area. I saw plenty of roof work

still being done as the plane came in for a

landing.

You were right by Lake Okeechobee..you should have brought a pole. Those
little canals and offshoots of waterways you saw driving on 710 are
among the best in the country for fishing....that's why you always see
pickups and cars prked in the middle of nowhere on that road.
You should have checked out this coast inland of Punta Gorda and the
areas that were hit squarely by all three storms. People were still
living in tents as of last Christmas and many still haven't received
insurance settlement checks. No roofs at all in some of the smaller
towns...all blue tarps.

Regards,

Leland C. Scott

.KC8LDO