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Bush baby in Atlanta visits HRO
Thanks to Bob Dobbs and RHF for the heads up on HRO. My son took me
there yesterday, it's a small store in a very downmarket area. Cluttered with merchandise that is not marked it was difficult to see anything - not like the lovely Fry's at all, so I was a bit disappointed and only came away with a Monitoring times and QST. Since I got on the Delta airliner I was surprised to find everything in the US is now in two languages!!! even the food and other packaging is in two languages. Looks like when my grandson goes to school he will have to learn Spanish??!! I had another long sweep on SW but found very little, just a few Spanish stations and two hot gospelers in English. AM MW is quite exciting for this bush baby as many of the stations I hear so weakly in Africa I can now hear clearly on my ultralight Grundig G8 Traveller II. Have now got ten states on MW, but am awed that some fella's have all the 48 states and some even logged 700 AM MW stations = quite amazing and really hard work and a lot of skill and patience. I salute these DXer's for their great achievements. Well off home again on Tuesday and the 32 hours door to door travelling is not to be looked forward to. Have fun and good DX to all JP in Atlanta |
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Bush baby in Atlanta visits HRO
Bob Dobbs wrote:
Much like the circumstance here where the HRO is smaller with an absence of labeled prices that suggests haggling compared to the Fry's with a bright ceiling populated by 1KW halogen lights every 20 feet or so and lots of trinkets to catch your eye and deplete your budget resources. I personally use HRO for its comprehensive stock of Amateur gear and as a social gathering of Hams to swap bull**** while eating free donuts, whereas Fry's is too big for that and no matter what I go for, I always manage to see enough nifty toys to empty my wallet. HRO in Burbank has prices marked. Fry's is closer. I usually just get mail-order from Jun's in Culver City (hamcity.com). Being in a border town it's not surprising to encounter as much if not more Spanish than English, but somehow I would have guessed Atlanta's location in deep Dixie would have served as insulation from the influx. Houston is more Hispanic than anything else. I've lived in the Sunbelt pretty much my whole life, and we've always had lots of Hispanics around here. |
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There have been times before, from right here on doggy's couch in
Jackson,Mississippi, I have picled up radio stations as far away as Seattle, Los Angeles, New York City,Miami,Vancouver,B.C.Canada and quite a few other Lonnnnng distance Cities radio stations.All of that and more with little AM only portable radios. cuhulin |
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On Sep 25, 6:55*am, John Plimmer wrote:
Thanks to Bob Dobbs and RHF for the heads up on HRO. My son took me there yesterday, it's a small store in a very downmarket area. Cluttered with merchandise that is not marked it was difficult to see anything - not like the lovely Fry's at all, so I was a bit disappointed and only came away with a Monitoring times and QST. Since I got on the Delta airliner I was surprised to find everything in the US is now in two languages!!! even the food and other packaging is in two languages. Looks like when my grandson goes to school he will have to learn Spanish??!! I had another long sweep on SW but found very little, just a few Spanish stations and two hot gospelers in English. AM MW is quite exciting for this bush baby as many of the stations I hear so weakly in Africa I can now hear clearly on my ultralight Grundig G8 Traveller II. Have now got ten states on MW, but am awed that some fella's have all the 48 states and some even logged 700 AM MW stations = quite amazing and really hard work and a lot of skill and patience. I salute these DXer's for their great achievements. Well off home again on Tuesday and the 32 hours door to door travelling is not to be looked forward to. Have fun and good DX to all JP in Atlanta Good deal John, glad you had a good trip and here's hoping a safe one home. |
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On Sep 25, 7:53*am, Bob Dobbs wrote:
John Plimmer wrote: Thanks to Bob Dobbs and RHF for the heads up on HRO. My son took me there yesterday, it's a small store in a very downmarket area. Cluttered with merchandise that is not marked it was difficult to see anything - not like the lovely Fry's at all, so I was a bit disappointed and only came away with a Monitoring times and QST. Much like the circumstance here where the HRO is smaller with an absence of labeled prices that suggests haggling compared to the Fry's with a bright ceiling populated by 1KW halogen lights every 20 feet or so and lots of trinkets to catch your eye and deplete your budget resources. I personally use HRO for its comprehensive stock of Amateur gear and as a social gathering of Hams to swap bull**** while eating free donuts, whereas Fry's is too big for that and no matter what I go for, I always manage to see enough nifty toys to empty my wallet. Since I got on the Delta airliner I was surprised to find everything in the US is now in two languages!!! even the food and other packaging is in two languages. Looks like when my grandson goes to school he will have to learn Spanish??!! Being in a border town it's not surprising to encounter as much if not more Spanish than English, but somehow I would have guessed Atlanta's location in deep Dixie would have served as insulation from the influx. -- Operator Bob Echo Charlie 42 What a phoney balogney. Why don't you mention about "cum" (as you so eloquently stated) dripping off his lip. rolling my eyes |
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Bush baby in Atlanta visits HRO
Hi John,
It's good to hear you are doing OK in rain-drenched Atlanta! Here in the Seattle vicinity we have a reputation for rain, rain, rain...but it rarely comes down in buckets like it does in the southeast USA. Well, at least Atlanta HAS an amateur radio store! The last one in Seattle folded years ago. Amateur Radio Supply in the Georgetown area near Boeing Field was also somewhat cluttered and uninviting, but still I enjoyed going there to see what was new. You commented about finding very little on SW compared to your South Africa home. In fact, you are in a part of the USA that has more on the SW bands than much of the country. The Southeast has the benefit of better Latin DX to the south, and European/African DX to the east. In comparison, my Pacific Northwest part of the country is more signal starved. In trips I've made across the country I've really noticed the difference. There are times I've tuned 60 meters from here on a good portable and found nothing more than WWV and a Brazilian station or two. My Perseus rigs reveal a few more stations, but it is really slim pickings compared to the 1980s and 1990s. That's the main reason why I mostly DX the foreign medium wave stations now. Have a good trip back to Montagu, and I hope it's not too tiring! Guy Atkins Puyallup, WA http://fivebelow.squarespace.com On Sep 25, 3:55*am, John Plimmer wrote: Thanks to Bob Dobbs and RHF for the heads up on HRO. My son took me there yesterday, it's a small store in a very downmarket area. Cluttered with merchandise that is not marked it was difficult to see anything - not like the lovely Fry's at all, so I was a bit disappointed and only came away with a Monitoring times and QST. Since I got on the Delta airliner I was surprised to find everything in the US is now in two languages!!! even the food and other packaging is in two languages. Looks like when my grandson goes to school he will have to learn Spanish??!! I had another long sweep on SW but found very little, just a few Spanish stations and two hot gospelers in English. AM MW is quite exciting for this bush baby as many of the stations I hear so weakly in Africa I can now hear clearly on my ultralight Grundig G8 Traveller II. Have now got ten states on MW, but am awed that some fella's have all the 48 states and some even logged 700 AM MW stations = quite amazing and really hard work and a lot of skill and patience. I salute these DXer's for their great achievements. Well off home again on Tuesday and the 32 hours door to door travelling is not to be looked forward to. Have fun and good DX to all JP in Atlanta |
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On the American East Coast, sometimes some people can listen to some
Western European AM/MW radio stations.Signals skipping wayyyyyyy over across the Atlantic waters. cuhulin |
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Bush baby in Atlanta visits HRO
Yeah Mr.Plimmer, have a Good trip.
Keep on DXing. cuhulin |
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Bush baby in Atlanta visits HRO
On Sep 25, 4:53*am, Bob Dobbs wrote:
John Plimmer wrote: Thanks to Bob Dobbs and RHF for the heads up on HRO. My son took me there yesterday, it's a small store in a very downmarket area. Cluttered with merchandise that is not marked it was difficult to see anything - not like the lovely Fry's at all, so I was a bit disappointed and only came away with a Monitoring times and QST. Much like the circumstance here where the HRO is smaller with an absence of labeled prices that suggests haggling compared to the Fry's with a bright ceiling populated by 1KW halogen lights every 20 feet or so and lots of trinkets to catch your eye and deplete your budget resources. I personally use HRO for its comprehensive stock of Amateur gear and as a social gathering of Hams to swap bull**** while eating free donuts, whereas Fry's is too big for that and no matter what I go for, I always manage to see enough nifty toys to empty my wallet. Since I got on the Delta airliner I was surprised to find everything in the US is now in two languages!!! even the food and other packaging is in two languages. Looks like when my grandson goes to school he will have to learn Spanish??!! Being in a border town it's not surprising to encounter as much if not more Spanish than English, but somehow I would have guessed Atlanta's location in deep Dixie would have served as insulation from the influx. -- Operator Bob Echo Charlie 42 The majority of the Illegal Drug Trade in the Atlanta Metro Area is conducted by Hispanic Gangs. http://www.alipac.us/article3624.html http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-342298931.html http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/atl...10/190259.html The State of Georgia has a rapidly growing Hispanic Population. http://www.sbdc.uga.edu/pdfs/hispanicfactsheet.pdf |
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Bush baby in Atlanta visits HRO
Read my stuff at alt.scooter newsgroper.
Breeeeed all about it. cuhulin |
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