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I have a HTC Touch, the phone is decent but for $100 you can buy a crappy P&S digital and carry it in your vest.

I have one as well, they don't take great pics.

If you want a camera by a camera. Cell phone cameras are good in a pinch but they don't have the best quality optics.

WHAT????!! And I thought I was being extravagant... Funny, that's almost how much I have in my RRSPs... Retirement.. or really sweet sonar..

 

The choice is obvious!

 

LOL

Yep, Really Sweet Sonar!!!! You can retire when you're dead!!!!

NICE!

 

I want one of these..

 

mmmhhmmmm.. Queue Homer drooling..

 

HD

Hey they're almost the same price!!!!

Copper

You not getting the winters off any more??

hehehe...........Welcome to the real world!!!

I listened to Sirius all the way through the rockies from Jasper to the south of Banff and found the reception was excellent the whole way. Maybe this is because of a more southerly latitude?

XM was terrible as soon as you got near the 60th parallel. It would start to cutout as you went over small hills and in Yellowknife the reception was worse. Most of my drive to and from work it was out.

Sirius is way better here. It doesn't cut out at all and only cuts out in the Northern Mountain Ranges. It's fine in BC's Northern Rockies, it doesn't start to cut out until you are further north in the Yukon.

In Alaska it gets very little reception due to all them mountains and Northerly Latitude.

Sirius even works when I'm up at Great Bear Lake!!! I'm unsure just how far North it works well, but it is much better up here than XM.

Do you pay a one time license or is it monthly like your cable after you purchase the equipment?

You pay a yearly subscription fee.

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I have had both. I started with an XM when I lived in Ontario and switched to a Sirius when I moved North.

The XM satellites are lower in the sky and reception suffers in the far North.

The Sirius I find has better programming than the XM. Pricing is about the same and you can listen to Sirius online when not listening to your radio, (XM was charging to listen online). I believe there are more accessories for the Sirius radios as well, you can get extra in car kits, home kits, boom boxes so you can take it any where.

Oh Yeah, they don't work well at all in the mountains. All that darn granite blocks the signal!!!! I lose my signal when I head into the Yukons St. Elias Mountains on the way to Alaska and I don't get it back until I return from my trip!!

One more thing, Sirius has the NASCAR Channel!!!!!

Problem with ice... it's real hard on transducers/speed sensors/trailer lights launching !

That's what Dineymite is fer!!!!!!

Your absolutly right. I just havent seen much difference in functionality between the cheaper and more expensive ones. It seems, as the price goes up they just look more fancy.

Just like the Wimmin!!!

yeah it wasn't so bad growing up in Sudbury, but since I moved down south here by Long Point it seems like the whole winter is a write off...we're lucky to get 4 weeks of solid ice.

Since I moved up north I haven't had any problem finding ice.

It's been warm so far this winter so we've only had ice for 3 weeks now.

Now it would only hurry up and get thick enough for travel.

Here's a shot from last February or March

And as for the age limit...remember in Germany it takes something like 7 years to get your licence...

That may have something to do with having freeways with no speed limit.

Would you want a 17 year old doing 150 MPH on the Autobahn?

Where's the pics of the fight?????

p.s Nice fish.

Higher priced rods use better materials in their construction.

The most important materials are in the blank it's self. Higher quality graphite is stronger lighter and more sensitive.

Sensitivity is probably the most important aspect of almost any fishing rod. The ability to feel the light bites alows you to put more fish in the boat or on the bank. This is especially true when jigging. Other components such as guides are also made of better materials on the more expensive sticks. An inexpensive rod will most likely have aluminum oxide guides while the more expensive rod will most likely have ceramic guides.

Big deal you say they look the same...........the better guides are stronger and lighter. The big deal is the ability to reduce weight, especially on the tip section of the rod. Heavier guides will damp the vibrations transmitter through the blank more than will the lighter guides. This does two things slows the ability of the rod to recover after casting and impedes strike detection. The ability to recover after casting is extremely important in fly casting.

Having the tip continue to bounce around for a second decreases control which effects casting accuracy and distance.

That's my .02

I have seen nitrogen used in racing applications, but think it is a waste inpassenger applications. IMHO

I wonder if putting an OPP hat on the dash, or even a decal on the window would keep them away from tampering with your car.

 

Otherwise just keep the door unlocked and leave nothing valuable inside.

nice fish.

I never had a problem when I had a Peel Region ball cap visable in my car.

Looks fine to me, I'd just leave it!!

if you have a GPS, don't have your home address listed as home just in case someone breaks into your car while you are out. if they get your GPS then they now know where you house is and it could be next on the list of things to do...

Good idea, go to the local police station and mark that as home. That way they will get a nice surprise when they come a callin'!!

Lew you hit the nail on the head. I went for a job interview one time to be cook in a county jail. The guards called repeat offenders JOB SECURITY and thought it was funny. The judges and lawyers make a lot more money off the "system" than the guards so imagine how much they rejoice that some people just keep doing the crime without really doing the time. The reason for that is no politican wants to tell that in order to make us safe from this type of thing they have to take away some freedoms and increase taxes to build more hotels for the criminals....

 

How about just doing this. You get caught doing a simple property crime you get a high tech type tatoo on the side of your face calling you what you did.... When a certain number of years have passed if you have been a good person you get the "tatoo" to disappear. Would let everyone know what kind of person you are and would cost a lot less than putting you up in hotel for your sentence.

 

Of course a ton of kids would want to have a similar tatoo just for kicks so it would have to something unique.

How about a tat of an right in the middle of their mug!!!!

We gotta cat..

That broadband adapter looks sweet, for $700cnd though ? it will be $300 in 2 years, damn inflation on new technology.

Yep, too many to count even with the best chip, gps is just a start point than it's all sonar, I just mark way-points all along the actual break lines of good musky trolls and go by that. This is why the 3D underwater views don't work either because they just follow the GPS contours and they aren't even close most times, I don't even turn the 3D on ever it's useless.

I think the new machines include broadband. I could be wrong though, I was once before..........June 10th 1979 I think.

I guess we'll know for sure in about 10 days.

Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.........................................How's the new stick??

Me Likey!!!! Well I was going to get an LCX 113, but now I think I see an even sweeter toy!!!

They are summer run steelhead. They usually start running the rivers in july. There used to be a fishable population in Owen Sound in the 90's. The states of Wisconsin, Indiana and Illinois are the best place in the GL region to fish them as they stock quite a few and have strong runs.

Okay -- I'm still trying to figure out the rig --- the bottom of the three way swivel, in particular. You jam surgical tubing onto the swivel, and wedge it there with lead..what dangles down? A pencil weight? I suppose how heavy depends on the current...are you picky on the length of the line going to the weight?

Main line connects to a 3 way swivel, leader to the other side of the swivel.

Next to the 3rd swivel is connected a piece of surgical tube (attached with a piece of wire (copper fly tying wire in the thicker sizes works well Or bell wire with the cover removed.)) .

Slide a piece of pencil lead into the tubing.

This Artists Rendering should help.