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The Mr Buddy has tipover shutoff, and Coleman's don't list that. We have a Mr Buddy Portable Buddy and we know you don't have to bump it very hard for it to shut off, which is reassuring.

It does. I had some trouble with it, because it was the first trip in over a year in the right seat, and I had trouble placing the left wheels. I kept thinking the left wheels were farther away that they really were. I am glad my wife was able to help me.

Did you see a lot of Land Rovers climbing Lippincott? If so, we were in the last one. I remember a Dodge like yours that pulled over for all of us.

Bill Burke (who is in the left of the photo) refers to it as a "bung".

Sweet! My wife's Volvo actually didn't do too bad in the snow, but we did put all-season tyres on it.

The round shape is a lot more resistant to buckling. Also, the round shape uses less material to enclose a given volume.

Spam comes in a rectangular can.

We recently purchased 2 of the 5 lb ones, mainly because they are the only ones that fit in the racks that came on the Dormobile. On our recent DV trip, we camped 5 nights, cooking every night and most breakfasts. One cylinder ran the stove, the other the heater, and we did not run out of...

Are the closed coils those black cylinders I see partway up the antenna?

Wow, that was quick. Thanks, Graham.

Mr Heater Portable Buddy We paid something like $60 for it, and it is great for heating the interior of the tent trailer and the Dormobile. It shuts off automatically if you bump it (we have tested this a couple of times), so the tip over protection works. We bought an adapter hose so we...

When we were absolutely freezing in the snow around the hot fire one time, an old timer got up, grabbed the shovel, and put 2 or 3 hot coals on the ground under each of our chairs. The difference those coals made was amazing, even through the chair, outergarmets, and long johns.

That is what I used to study for my General. I found the link here on ExPo somewhere - I think it is in the Ham Radio FAQ that is stickyed.

After wasting a lot of time trying to find a place to buy new seals for my Blitz metal gas cans, I discovered if you ask customer service, they will send you seals for free: http://www.blitzusa.com/feedback.htm My cans still leak a tiny bit, more of a smell or a little bit of a weep, but they...

Are these simple switches make before break? That is, when you switch from "1" to "Both", is the battery connection momentarily interrupted when the knob is halfway between them? I was just wondering what would happen if you switched them while you were driving down the road.

Can you use their gain figures to compare antennas within a particular manufacturer's range? Or are they too inaccurate even for that? It seems like the 5/8 wave ones have more gain than the 1/4 - I am thinking the extra length is a worthwhile tradeoff for me if that is so.

Thanks. I will buy a little and try it. Will those red heat guns the electronic techs use to shrink their heat shrink work?

Don't put yourself out too much. There is nothing that can't wait a week or two.

Ah-so! Hope it works out. The impermanence of the web is having me download more and more stuff to my local drive recently.

Yes, that was a mistake. I had the hammer down climbing a grade, we were going 60 or 65, then the grade got shallower and shallower, and then I noticed the handling getting a little squirrely. I let off on the gas and asked my wife how fast we were going. Years of fatigue, most likely. The...