I'd like to know how many of you use one on the REALLY cold winter nights while DXing, and if you mostly go with an electric heater or a kerosene heater. I'm going to be a guest at my parents' farm east of Council Bluffs, Iowa all this week and have come up with the idea of bringing along a Stanley 1500-watt utility heater to keep my surroundings warm should I decide to stay up into the wee hours. I've run into a bit of a quandary, though...it requires plugging into an outlet. My obvious choice would be to go with a tractor shed on our place, but it's one that was constructed in the mid-1980s. As is the case with most modern tractor sheds, it is of a steel construction and has fluorescent lighting overhead, so there will be a bit of a buzz issue, although not intolerable. To get away from the buzz completely, my other way to go would be to DX from a wooden shed on our place that was built during the 1920s in which we raised chickens when I was a kid. Most sheds and o utbuildings on farms that were built back then are going to be all-wood, and would naturally be more appealing for DXing, but many that are THAT old don't have outlets, and that's the situation with this one. In that case, I would think a kerosene heater would be a better choice. Anyway, I welcome all feedback on this. I'm just happy to get out of the city for a week and get back to a place where I won't have to deal with images, spurs, and mixing products on the AM band!
73, Rick Dau South Omaha, Nebraska EN21af MW: Sony ICF-2010, Grundig AN-200 antenna LW: Sony ICF-2010, Quantum Q-Stick paired with Ratzlaff "cake dummy" loop FM: Sangean ATS-909X with extended stock whip _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
