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I was in the Minneapolis area this January and I had never been outside in such cold weather in my life. For 3 days, the high was barely above 0 and the low was below -10. It never gets that cold in NJ. Let me tell you, it felt like hell walking any kind of distance outside (even while listening to the awesome dance music on KDWB-HD2). It was so cold my gloves got brittle when I breathed on them. People would leave their cars running outside while they go shopping for groceries. But strangely enough, my body got used to the cold. A few days later when the high was in the low 20s, that felt "warm". When I got back to NJ, I noticed my body was still used to that kind of cold for weeks. I felt ok walking outside with just a light sweater when it was in the 30s.
I'm happy to report that my VW has a functioning — if slow, cuz it's a diesel — heater. The AC is a little weak but after 5 years and 280,000 miles I guess anything's the be expected.
Besides antenna icing issues, do those frigidly cold temperatures have any other effects on transmitter plants?
When it's -20°, do HD radios only run warm? ;D
Besides antenna icing issues, do those frigidly cold temperatures have any other effects on transmitter plants?
When it's -20°, do HD radios only run warm? ;D
Heh. They could start marketing them as "HD heaters".
KB1OKL said:
It was called a heat exchanger and was designed to take waste heat from the exhaust and cycle it into the cabin. Corvairs had a similar system although GM offered a separate gasoline heater as an option. The problems with the design were (1) not enough heat and (2) if you had an exhaust leak of any kind it would pump carbon monoxide (and other nasty stuff) into the cabin.
Yes! You're right! The faster you drove, the faster the "fan" ran! 
Of course if there was a headwind on a bitter cold day, the cold air blasting in through the primitive ventilation-heat system wiped out what puny warmth existed.
That was the '69 squareback wagon. A few years later I happened upon a low-mileage low-bucks 1974 Thing (we can pause here for the audience to stop laughing.) That VW had the optional gasoline heater. Hotter than Lara Logan.
Of course if there was a headwind on a bitter cold day, the cold air blasting in through the primitive ventilation-heat system wiped out what puny warmth existed. That was the '69 squareback wagon. A few years later I happened upon a low-mileage low-bucks 1974 Thing (we can pause here for the audience to stop laughing.) That VW had the optional gasoline heater. Hotter than Lara Logan.
Probably about 1970-71 one of my hippy friends had an old VW bus that could barely go up hills. Semi's used to beat us going up a certain hill on RT 20. Anyway one day a bunch of us decided to paint it all up psychedelic. We took a bunch of left over house paint and painted grave stones on the side kind of like the inside of the Goodbye Cream gatefold album cover. We used to get pulled over in every town we drove through but couldn't figure out why ;D. I don't think he had that van very long.
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