[at-l] all things considered

[wb4pan at mindspring.com (Chase Davidson)]

Yo
	I went through a couple of those $20, Radio Shcack AM/FM analog 
radios. They brought much me much listening pleasure. Sometimes if I 
slept in a shelter I would listen to it all night to drown out the 
shelter noises. You can pretty much pick up NPR from Springer to 
Katahdin. At Gatherings, Trail Days and Rucks you might need something 
in your ears i.e. a radio or ear plugs to down out the all nighters.
	After hiking with Chainsaw I had to have a Digital radio with NOAA 
Weather on it like the one he has. The digital (Sangean 4.2 oz from 
CCrane)CCrane) radio had much better reception than the analog ones. 
Often with the analog while listening to NPR and walking the radio 
would, with every step or turn in the trail switch between NPR and 
some close by local religious station. The Digital doesn't have this 
problem it locks on to the station you choose
	When I head out for a couple of weeks I never know. I might listen to 
radio 24 hrs a day. Or like my last trip across PA I never even turned 
it on. But I did have a tiny MP3 player with meditation music. One 
SOBO I met had a neat system. He had an MP3 player that could rip the 
music off a CD player. In his bump box he had a CD player and a bunch 
of CD's. While in town he reloaded the tiny MP3 player.

chase
	



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