Who else with multiple expensive hobbies?

[tullibee]

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

http://www.umsatshow.org/

[Dave Pendleton]

I'm thinking about it.

I want to get my PADI card this year.

[rtk]

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

[JJ]

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

[mmcnx2]

No scuba for me either, but guns, fishing, harleys and street rods are enough to break any bank.

[farmerj]

scuba hasn't gotten wet in almost 18 years.

HAM Radio isn't helpful

Neither is SCA activities. http://www.sca.org

[Dave Pendleton]

Yeah, I wanted to like HAM radio a lot more too.

[farmerj]

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.

[afossum]

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.
Picked up a Glock 19 this winter for something to do while the lakes are froze over. Enjoy going out the the range and see if I can hit the paper target.

Al

[mnglocker]

Hookers and blow.

[Dave Pendleton]

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.

[farmerj]

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.

[mrokern]

Hookers and blow.

Get the toothless ones. They cost less.

[ttousi]

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

So that's the reason for the odor

[gman1868]

Scuba?

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