Seagoon

It's really hard to educate people to only keep legal sized fish when they are able to buy them under-sized commercially. To me, that is a major flaw in our system. Would nationwide size limits work? If we had them, we could put farm and import restrictions on minimum size for the species that occur naturally in Oz? BTW, those kingies look a bit cloudy in the eye... I wouldn't buy them... but I'm a fresh fish snob! haha

Haha thats so good. I need that.

Hi all, Yeah don't be afraid to return it if it doesn't work! That was my experience. I'm running mine from a USB port on a laptop, with the antennas that come with the unit. The are these small little whip antennas, that are about 6" long each. I'm not close to the antenna cable and want to have the freedom to move around and take this in the car etc... The second unit that I'm sticking with was so good that the little antennas are fine. The thing with radio stuff is that it is so dependent on many variables that are hard to control and predict. Not like cabled stuff, that should just work... My suggestion is go for it, and perhaps buy from a retailer that you know will not argue if you want to return it due to poor performance, so you can try another :-) Cheers, Jon

Hi all, Anyone tried getting an HDTV Tuner for your PC? Or considering it? I had been, and did take the plunge last weekend. I thought I'd share my experience in case any fellow raiders were considering it... I bought one from the "Kaiser Baas' brand - it sounded German and so I thought it had to be good. But no. It was crap. I didn't like the software either - it was annoying. A critical thing to mention here is that because it's connected to your PC or laptop, you possibly won't have it connected to your external antenna system. So the performance of the unit is important. The quality of the radio matters, unless you plan to use the external antenna, or have some really fancy rabbit-ears. Anyhow, so I took that back, and got a more expensive one, brand being "Pinnacle". It is unreal - I'm really happy with it. It's a dual tuner one, which means that you can record/watch different channels simultaneously, but you can also operate it in "diversity" mode, in which the smarts in the receiver combine the two tuner signals and improve the net effective received signal quality. This sort of diversity receiver setup has been around for years in radio systems, especially with indoor receivers, or mobile transmitters, where nulls and fades due to reflections are common. So it's no surprise that it works for indoor TV reception too. This tuner also performs really well in single tuner mode too, so I suspect the quality of the radio is much better than the other one. And the software is much better too - not perfect, but a lot better. PM me if you want some more info. I recommend shopping around for a good price, and looking online too. Cheers, Jon

Love the drawings. Thanks for sharing your talents!

First time I went out this summer after a long lay up, was at the ramp, and trying to push the boat off the trailer, and it wouldn't budge... got my mate to back the car in a bit further to get some flotation, but still no good. Then got him to move forward cause I suspected that the leg was jamming into the bottom, as it was low tide... it turned out that the boat was still strapped to the trailer... d--khead! One two occasions now have witnessed others' boats coming off trailers at the ramp during reversing etc. One PWC with a very nasty bang down at ATB. How embarrassing.

Tops! Saw one of those crusing around Bantry Bay last time I was out - lovely blue colour in the water!

Nice work there - what bait were you using?

Hahahahahaha thats a good call Deano.

They go dont they! Big strong muscly bodies.

Gotta love that thawing feeling!! I can relate. Hawkesbury boating in winter does it to me every time!!

Hi mate yeah do something about it quick smart and keep it moving until you do. I coughed up a bunch of cash earlier in the year for the same problem. Cheers, Jon (I forgot to mention mine eventually fully ceased!) Funny posts there. Love your work ;-)

That's great, love the photos.

Great thanks for the link!

Sorry my turn to ask a dumb question or two. What does it look like? Is it under water, or does it sit on top of the water? How big is it? How could it go 'further into the sea' - isn't it anchored? Does anyone have a photo of it? I feel like a UFO hunter... ;-)