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which came first

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"Be who you are and say what you feel... Because those that matter... Don't mind...And those that mind... Don't matter."

The Model T and you could get it in any colour so long as it was black.

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actually there is no absolute proof that he ever said that.
obviously he was alphabetically challenged

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Yeah Chuck, true black ice is tough. I've seen it down here in Tx occasionally but we had it real bad a few times when I lived in Colorado Springs. I remember I had an accident once because of it in a parking lot. The parking lot had a sloped ramp that when to a stop sign. When my Isuzu Trooper hit the ramp and black ice (which I really couldn't see) I slid directly into the vehicle in front of me stopped at the stop sign. On true black ice it is thick enough that you have almost no traction at all. There were times when I drove on ice in Colorado without too much trouble, but black ice and sloped roadways do not mix. True... that chains are studs will work. They require them on the mountain passes in winter such as Monarch Pass.

Driving on black ice isn't much fun, and it's very tedious, but watching other people trying to drive on it is.  LMAO

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Hey Bill good to see ya  :hug:

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Thanks Morgan! Nice to see you too. I've been off for awhile, and the holidays, etc. Did a little singing tonight at the house. Recorded a couple - not sure if they are any good. My brother may come over tomorrow, or Sunday to sing. He wants to start practicing a lot. Perhaps I'll hit a club and do some singing tomorrow, though typically I like weekday nights as clubs are less crowded and rotation time is more reasonable.

Hope you have been well.

Bill

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typical of Murphy's Law I looked forward to taking 2 weeks off and came down with a cold. The cold was over in a few days the cough has lingered on playing havoc on my singing and pelvic floor muscles  LMAO

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yes Emmy, I DO miss Portland a lot!!

Although I'm glad I wasn't there. Here, the ice wasn't too bad! Although we're supposed to get up to 10 inches of snow by Sunday!

Most people here have studded tires.  I carry 'cable' chains as I've been driving on icy roads for over 32 years (an average of 6 months/yr) and only use mud/snow tires on my car (no studs or chains).

I live in the largest city in Alaska and our traffic is more like y'all in the lower 48 than what you're describing.  Commuter traffic inbound from the northern bedroom communities is 3 lane and solid for over 2 hours!  Anchorage itself stretches a total of over 60 miles from North to South with a resident population of ~ 270,000 with a bunch >50,000) commuters.

The worst part of living here is kick starting your polar bear when it's 20 below (F)... Penguins are in Megan's neighborhood not ours.

Dave,  I know   I think you live in the only City in Alaska  LOL .. Nah, it's beautiful up there.  Quite honestly, I AM jealous.  I'd love your weather (I like the cold) and the scenic setting of alaska.  Many around here retire and move south.. I want to come up North.  Any condo's built on the side of the Aleutians for sale ?  I'd do fine in a "dry" area.  I don't drink.. Just want clean air, pretty scenery.. and a couple female supermodels as neighbors... (oh yeah... Nothing to costly)..BUT... I need electricity too.. Not about to sell my guitars and amps !

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Errr Kappy, thin supermodels, the nature of the beast, dont normally do well in cold climes

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"dry" eh Steve?  That would mean someplace along the "railbelt" but not on the southern Richardson Highway (Copper River/Valdez area).  The Aleutian islands are an extremely expensive place to live and are definitely "wet" as is anything along the Gulf of Alaska.  Only those who live outside of a town or village have no power.  Everyone else has electricity (my monthly bill runs around $100).

As far as land/house options there is no such thing as 'cheap'.  The wife and I plan on moving to Tennessee when I retire because, at current values, I could sell my house here and buy two there !

Dave,  Isn't the "Grand Aleutian Inn" the only "alcoholic beverage allowed" area in Unalaska ?   I thought I read that because of our troops in the past causing probs with drinking in Dutch Harbor way back that port area was made dry.

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I'm willing to compromise.  A penguin with a nice @$$ as long as she's pretty on the inside !   I need cold climate.  I'll leave the super-models for the southern males down in mainland I suppose.  I'd like to view a nice sky without light pollution before my eyes go. Just an affordable area.  I heard there's an iceberg that's free way up north !   Zoning might allow me to sing up there too !

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dsharrow years ago b4 the net I put up this huge beam antenna and on 11 meters (cb) talked skip all over the world I talked several times to a chap up there that moved his family into the wilderness in Alaska His two daughters were home schooled The first one scored the second ever ged score in Ankoridge The next one scored first  This old man would be more at home with the wilderness type folks up there although I cant take the cold anymore...I really think in the last 6 weeks you have had more decent weather there than here in colorado..

I remember one of his comments if there were 3 fly fisheremen in a mile of a river it was crowded!!!. One of my last jobs was with a guy whjo worked on a fishing boat up there and when they pulled up the lobster traps they were iced up...

There are 2 regions I wanted to visit and never got to was Alaska and Maine where a young gal told me I would get along fine with the old conservatives there in fact she said I reminded her of her dad..There are many ways in many tribes and I like to study them all...

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Ollie,  You DX'd 11 meters predictably with 3-4 watts without an amplifier ?  or was this 25 watts SSB  line of site to a repeater ?   Sounds like sunspot conditions and not just ground-skip unless you were amp'd to a few hundred watts transmitting power (assuming it's just ground skip transmission) and as I vaguely recall that's around that band area (27 mhz SSB with decent groundplane and VERY high ant)     Of course before I could get a microphone in the 60's for an 11 meter chicken-band rig, I'd go to remote locations and on an AM car radio during sunspots listen to all sorts of amazing DX broadcasts, but that's receiving.  I've had the 2510 conversion done on a few of my rigs.  With a power microphone and a mountain I can sometimes pretend I'm a low-tech teenager again  LMAO.   I wonder if REACT is still around.  I miss the days of attempting to get them to triangulate in on me while inebriated and swearing on channel 9.   Somethings I really miss about the younger days..  Keying microphones while passing radio-control operated plane clubs, etc.  There is no way I've ever gotten beyond a 25 mile transmission range with under 5 watts 11 meter line of sight over water.  SSB however is easier with sunspot conditions transmitting on only 25 watts ASSUMING you are VERY high up !! but to CQ-DX with under a few hundred watts from inland ?  There is a Colorado QRP club, but QRP is pretty tough because that's 5 watts CW, and 10 watts PEP SSB and HOW people QSL so efficiently as to get 1000 miles per watt SSB amazes me under ANY condition.

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I dont remember if I was running power I preferred SSB but 16 the reg channel was hot and heavy with spanish shrimp boats and Cubans army used it foe communications when skip was rollin...

Ive actually talked skip with  2 WATT WALKLIE TALKIE..  We were stringing a tv cable from a cabin in a valley to an antenna on top of the mountain using them and this gal came on and said wer you guys at? In colorado wer u at?  She was in florida.. She said this is nuts I cant talk to my husband across town but I can talk to you... My buddy said well he needs to be at 8000  feet thats how high we are...

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Dutch Harbor is definitely NOT a dry (alcohol) town!  Many villages have voted to go 'dry' but not because of visitors but because of what alcohol was doing to themselves.