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Who else with multiple expensive hobbies?

Postby tullibee on Thu Feb 10, 2011 6:16 pm

Who else is headed for the scuba show on the 26th?

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Re: Who else with multiple expensive hobbies?

Postby Dave Pendleton on Thu Feb 10, 2011 6:26 pm

I'm thinking about it.

I want to get my PADI card this year.
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Re: Who else with multiple expensive hobbies?

Postby rtk on Thu Feb 10, 2011 6:26 pm

I have a closet full of scuba gear that has not seen water in ten years nor has it's owner. :shock:
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Re: Who else with multiple expensive hobbies?

Postby JJ on Thu Feb 10, 2011 6:30 pm

No scuba for me, but I do have two spendy hobbies other than guns. Fishing, and offroading with my Jeep. I've got a spare motor sitting in the garage that needs to be built and installed, and my 4" lift isn't cutting it, so a 6" long arm lift is in the works, right around the time it gets a full rollcage. Its only money right :roll:
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Re: Who else with multiple expensive hobbies?

Postby mmcnx2 on Thu Feb 10, 2011 6:34 pm

No scuba for me either, but guns, fishing, harleys and street rods are enough to break any bank.
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Re: Who else with multiple expensive hobbies?

Postby farmerj on Thu Feb 10, 2011 6:54 pm

scuba hasn't gotten wet in almost 18 years.

HAM Radio isn't helpful

Neither is SCA activities. http://www.sca.org
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Re: Who else with multiple expensive hobbies?

Postby Dave Pendleton on Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:06 pm

Yeah, I wanted to like HAM radio a lot more too.
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Re: Who else with multiple expensive hobbies?

Postby farmerj on Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:19 pm

HF radio, Digital Mode computer, digital mode interface, 2m hand held and mobile radios, portable power supplies, antennas, tools for fixing it all.

Course you could get by a lot cheaper with a cheap CW rig.
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Re: Who else with multiple expensive hobbies?

Postby afossum on Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:24 pm

Been diving for 24yrs or so. Been to some fantastic locations over the years, but mostly dive the Great Lakes. Just love them shipwrecks. As far as expensive goes, oh yeah, move to a rebreather 3 seasons ago, so that and all that goes with it, big money.
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Re: Who else with multiple expensive hobbies?

Postby mnglocker on Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:35 pm

Hookers and blow.
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Re: Who else with multiple expensive hobbies?

Postby Dave Pendleton on Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:35 pm

farmerj wrote:HF radio, Digital Mode computer, digital mode interface, 2m hand held and mobile radios, portable power supplies, antennas, tools for fixing it all.

Course you could get by a lot cheaper with a cheap CW rig.


Oh, you mean HAM isn't helping because you spend money on it.

I did too, for a while.

I joined one, then another local club. So-called "Elmers" were few and far between. Lot's of bitter old fat guys bitching about "no-code" HAM's (of which I am one), VOIP, the internet in general and whatever else you can think of. Local repeaters are pretty dead, and when someone is on, all they want to do is talk about what rig they're running, or what they're trying to get running, or what they would be running if they had more money. To me, radio was the means, not the end.

The few times I've tried on 25/85 to talk about boating, guns, camping, or danged-near anything else got me nothing but crickets.

I've got a nice Kenwood TM-V71A in my truck, but I only use it to talk simplex to my buddies when we tow our boats up to Superior.
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Re: Who else with multiple expensive hobbies?

Postby farmerj on Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:40 pm

I lost my 80 m dipole last fall in the wind storm. Don't feel up to climbing 35 feet into a pine tree to repair it so its sat all winter. No place nice to mount a radio in the olds at the moment for the radio I have for mobile, so I toss it on the dash for Skywarn stuff in the summer only.

I like working digital modes. Last year I got into russia, Buenes Aires and a couple other spots on the opposite side of the globe with digital. The russian one really surprised me.

The rest of it, oh so true.
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Re: Who else with multiple expensive hobbies?

Postby mrokern on Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:49 pm

mnglocker wrote:Hookers and blow.


Get the toothless ones. They cost less.
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Re: Who else with multiple expensive hobbies?

Postby ttousi on Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:56 pm

rtk wrote:I have a closet full of scuba gear that has not seen water in ten years nor has it's owner. :shock:


So that's the reason for the odor :twisted:
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Re: Who else with multiple expensive hobbies?

Postby gman1868 on Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:52 pm

Scuba?

Isn't that in the same category as not jumping out of a perfectly good airplane?
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