CB DAZE

Thursday, January 04, 2007

SO WHAT DID SANTA BRING YOU??

It's finally over (this years Holiday Marketing, huge crowds at the Mall, Best Buy, the Post Office, and clogged freeway traffic). Due to a shortfall of $$$ and a Bonus that came the Friday before Christmas, I didn't get to exercise my Internet shopping prowness as much as last year, but it is indeed, my favorite way to beat the lines!

I don't usually jump all over the web to buy items - I can usually find them in 1 or 2 websites I shop at, and since I've started this type of Holiday spending, I haven't come down with quite as many illnesses - thanks to keeping out of germs way.

Back to Santa, and your gifts...

I gave myself 2 luxury items this year, one of them was right in line with my hobby interests, the other was...well, "out of the blue":

Kenwood TS-850 (my first venture into Kenwood HF as a daily user rig). CW-Dave (the guy who should be in the Guinness book of world records for most rigs owned and operated) is a BIG Kenwood fan. As any old time reader knows, I'm more of a Yaesu/Icom kinda guy, but I'm going to give it a whirl.
Apple IPOD. I can't explain it, but I own it.

I got the black one (it looks cool but shows every fingerprint and smudge) because that's all the store had, and found that I was amazed at how small the IPOD is, considering it has a 30GB HD in it! The color screen is small, but bright and sharp and I don't like the earbuds that come with it. I've listened to ONE song so far, but have watched 2 episodes of "The Land of Giants" TV show from the sixties. I can see that this little player will come in handy whenever I'm expecting a long wait (doctors office).

SURPRISES

And then there is always the unexpected!! I picked up 2 Stoner items - One book "The New CB Sideband Book" (I've never seen this one before. Don wrote one in 1958 called "The New Sideband Book", which I have a copy of, but this one was written in 1977 and deals strictly with CB and has a few plugs for his "NEW" Stoner Pro40).