[pct-l] Fw: Radio on the trail

[blisterfree@surfree.com (Brett Tucker)]

In the spirit of circular reasoning, always a pct-l favorite, I present once
more my radio reception thesis.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brett Tucker" <blisterfree@surfree.com>
To: <pct-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 11:35 PM
Subject: Music on the trail


> The trouble with carrying a mini radio [or large radio with 100w amp and
subwoofer - ed.] on the PCT is a matter of reception.
> All day long the PCT wanders among hillsides, in and out of dusty
horse-poop
> gullies, and every gully it seems offers up a different radio station.
First
> it's two minutes of Sammy Hagar on KLOS, then an enveloping static sends
us
> channel surfing; we get a minute and 30 seconds of Vegas show tunes via
Palm
> Desert, before more static pushes us to the AM dial and religious radio
from a
> mormonically distant Salt Lake City, Utah. Finally, returning to Frequency
> Modulation, we crest a ridge and at once receive every station
broadcasting
> within a 200 mile radius. One particular decimal point on the radio dial
> offers us two stations in perfect overlay, each competing equally for
> attention, but as our trail dips off the ridge this way and that, one or
the
> other tune temporarily wins the war. Will it be Kenny G or Metallica? Who
> can say? One thing's certain, though. Well, two things, at least along the
> PCT in California. The stations affording the best reception invariably
are
> the ones playing the Mariachi music, and the worst station ever to
broadcast
> so singularly clearly in the mountains north of Donner Pass must be Cabin
99
> FM.
>
> I say bring on the horns and sombreros. And leave that channel surfing for
> the gringos down in the valley.
>
> - blisterfree
>