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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bearcub who wrote (6283)	7/6/1999 9:51:00 AM
From: tcd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

for starters bearcub when was the last time any person who bought an audio piece of equipment was thinking radio? gee, only you? audio components that use dates: VCR, SAT devices, TV, WEB TV devices, cable boxes - anyway, audio is compliant.

To: bearcub who wrote (6283)	7/6/1999 10:54:00 AM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

trivial solar power As long as we're talking about powering radios, I wish to tell you the fun that I have with my solar powered Ni-Cad charger. More than half of the portable stuff we have today seems to run off of AA batteries. I have a AA charger that I use for a short wave radio. Works great. A sunny afternoon charges them up pretty good. Cloudy days take much longer. This is very useful for camping where there is no electrical mains available. Seems a good thing for kids to teach them a bit about science, conservation, saving money and self-reliance. (It's the Ni-Cads that save the money. It takes along time to pay off the charger when mains electricity is so much cheaper) You can buy a BayGen radio that has a built-in crank generator, but that seems a bit pricey to me. A solar charger is more general in that it can power lots of other stuff. I have to get another solar charger that handles C and D flashlight batteries. It should prove useful if blackouts are more frequent and longer than the 'experts' predict come January. Even if nothing bad happens in 6 months, it's still a worthwhile gizmo to have.