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

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.

Bush baby in Atlanta visits HRO
 

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

Bush baby in Atlanta visits HRO
 

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.

Bush baby in Atlanta visits HRO
 

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

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

Bush baby in Atlanta visits HRO
 

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

Bush baby in Atlanta visits HRO
 

Yeah Mr.Plimmer, have a Good trip.
Keep on DXing.
cuhulin

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

Bush baby in Atlanta visits HRO
 

Read my stuff at alt.scooter newsgroper.
Breeeeed all about it.
cuhulin

Bush baby in Atlanta visits HRO
 

I Love old stores like that, similar stores, junk stores, junk shops.You
never know what kind of Goodies you might find in there.

Have you been Dumpster Diving lately? Seriously.

www.devilfinder.com
Dumpster Diving
cuhulin

Bush baby in Atlanta visits HRO
 

On 9/27/09 24:37 , Toxic wrote:
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:24:43 -0700, Bushcraftgregg wrote:

rolling my eyes

Is that a new feature on dashboard bobble head dolls?

Only if you're insured by Geico.

Bush baby in Atlanta visits HRO
 

Geico SUCKS! so does that STUPID Geico gecko lizard! (you know what I
call it when I have to pee? it's called, Draining my Lizard) I once
phoned Geico years for a quote on bare minimum liability insurance for
my old 1978 Dodge van.I don't remember the price that Stupid Geico MORON
SOB quoted, but it was OUTRAGEOUS! I slammed my phone down and I told
him to Get F..ked!

I looked in the yellow pages in my phone book.I wound up going to the
American Automobile Insurance office on Highway 80, about three miles
East behind doggy's couch.I pay less than $200.00 each six months for
liability insurance for my van.
cuhulin

Bush baby in Atlanta visits HRO
 

D. Peter Maus wrote:
On 9/27/09 24:37 , Toxic wrote:
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:24:43 -0700, Bushcraftgregg wrote:

rolling my eyes

Is that a new feature on dashboard bobble head dolls?

Only if you're insured by Geico.

GEE, thanks Peter. coffee all over screen.

Drifter...

Bush baby in Atlanta visits HRO
 

~ RHF wrote:


The majority of the Illegal Drug Trade in the
Atlanta Metro Area is conducted by Hispanic

I'll bet you white people use more drugs than everybody else combined.

Bush baby in Atlanta visits HRO
 

Bush baby in Atlanta visits HRO
 

My van insurance is provided by Progressive insurance company.I am
satisfied with it.I am the only person who drives/rides in my
van.Whenever I fix the water leak in my 1978 Dodge van, I will go to the
insurance office and have them switch my insurance on my 1983 Dodge van
to my 1978 Dodge van.After either six months or a year, I will switch
back again.
cuhulin, back and forth

Bush baby in Atlanta visits HRO
 

I mites looks around furr me ahh little car, bouts the size of an old
little bitty MG bug eye/frog eye Sprite car.I wants to puts some
styrofoam all over on it and carve it with an electric carving knife and
then fiberglass it and thens paints it a verry, verry brite PINK.I wants
it to looks like a Miss Piggy car.
cuhulin

Bush baby in Atlanta visits HRO
 

On 9/27/09 16:07 , Toxic wrote:
On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:42:24 -0500, D. Peter Maus wrote:

On 9/27/09 24:37 , Toxic wrote:
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:24:43 -0700, Bushcraftgregg wrote:

rolling my eyes

Is that a new feature on dashboard bobble head dolls?

Only if you're insured by Geico.


As much resources (money) is committed
to those lizard and caveman commercials,
their prices have to be non-competitively higher.
I guess they think the public is so naive
as to fall for cuteness over value.



The advertising is paid for with profits on invested float. The
amount spent on advertising pales compared to the amount taken in
profits on that investment.

It's how Warren Buffett built his billions.

In fact, Geico is a Buffett company.

Bush baby in Atlanta visits HRO
 

She Lubs me,,,,, she lubs me not,,,,, she lubs me,,,,, she lubs me
not,,,,,, she Lubs me!

Wen yoo said yoo lubs me,,,,, ahh wuz ahh happy mains,,,,,,, lets me
tolds yoo baiby,,,,,,,,, ahh am a Honky Tonk mains,,,,,,, lets me tolds
yoo baiby,,,,,,, ahh am ahh Honky Tonk mainnnnns,,,,,,,
cuhulin