Besides for Model Railroading I am into Amateur Radio, Miniature Wargaming, and Scale-Model building.

Here is a Photo of my HF Transceiver that I use for Ham Radio, I also have a small 2-Meter Transceiver, and a Crystal-Radio that I built a few months ago.



So, What are your other Hobbies?

Flight to Egypt is scheduled for Monday 4/4. First dive next day 10am

Other hobbies...
#1 Stamp collecting - been collecting them since I was a kid. Occasionally I sell off some of them to finance more MRR stuff...
#2 Old VW beetles - probably had a couple dozen of them over the years. Currently have a '74 standard beetle.

Let's see:
Exploring the city on my bicycle,
My on-going auto restoration project
Gardening
Painting
almost any kind of building/tinkering including welding, woodwork, and electronics.
cooking

My Harley



and Fishing

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My other main hobby is hiking. I belong to two major hiking associations here in Ontario -- The Bruce Trail Conservancy and the Oak Ridges Trail Association.

I love exploring our Niagara Escarpment and Oak Ridges Moraine on these trails, as well as several other areas surrounding Toronto. Also really like Algonquin Park & other provincial/national parks. There's nothing like escaping from the city, heading off into the country, and disappearing off on a trail network for a couple hours. I enjoy the scenery, the escape, relaxation aspect of this, exercise, local/pioneer history as well as simply enjoying nature (the various trees/wildflowers/plants, geology, glacial landforms, etc.).

There's a great greenbelt surrounding Toronto partly formed by the Niagara Escarpment area (to the West), Oak Ridges Moraine (to the North) and various river valleys (to the East).

Other related hobbies to this, that I enjoy, are: camping, backwoods camping and canoeing.

Cheers,

I enjoy bicycling, golf, photography, reading, and traveling. I just returned from Texas yesterday and our next trip will be to Oregon and Washington state. It's a little cool out yet to start cycling but I did get in a few rounds of golf while in Texas.

Tom

My other passion is fishing for catfish and carp since both are notorious fighters that know how to bend a rod and make a reel's drag sing..

For the past thirteen years I have spent at least two weekends a month working as a Nationally Licensed Corner Marshall for the Sports Car Club of America at both amateur club races and at Professional events, such as the “Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona” and the “12 Hours of Sebring.” This has been an exciting and enjoyable, although potentially dangerous pastime, especially for anyone who, like me, is an incurable gear head, loves sports cars and road racing.

There is a training program required to be Licensed SCCA Race Staff, with annual refresher courses for Corner Workers, both in “The Art of Flagging” as well as safety measures, including the fighting of a car fire (complete with a “Car-B-Que” for practical experience) as well as some basic EMS skills to stabilize an injured driver until the Rescue Truck and the real EMS arrive.

Corner Marshalls (or Corner Workers, as we are commonly called) communicate with approaching racing drivers to let them know what the conditions are around the next corner by using seven different flags (Green and Checkered are only at Start finish in this country) and are also the local first responders in case of an incident. They are in constant contact with “Race Control” by radio. When watching on TV, we are the people dressed in white right on the other side of the Armco or Jersey Barrier from the racing surface. When my daughter turned 18 and moved back down to Florida to live with me, she got involved, too. That was a lot of fun, the two of us manning a corner at Sebring.

The SCCA also has a program of “sound attenuation.” As civilization has closed in on the nation’s race tracks, the new homeowners have started complaining about the noise. So the SCCA has set a noise limit of 103 dB, a level beyond which a car is disqualified. It is not a glorious job, drivers can get pretty angry when you DQ them, there is a bunch of paperwork involved, but someone has to do the job … so I worked as a Corner Marshall, sometimes only a couple feet from cars doing 130+ mph in Central Florida Region one weekend, and then worked as the Nationally Licensed Chief of Sound Control on a second weekend in the (Southern) Florida Region. If there was a Pro event at Miami-Homestead, Sebring or Daytona, I would be there on a third weekend of the month. I actually took my two weeks’ vacation split between the week of the Rolex 24 (in January) and the week of the 12 Hours of Sebring (in March) to work all of the practice sessions and support races at each event. An added benefit was to meet and become friends with a lot of drivers. I’ve sat and consumed a few beers after a race with Boris Said, Max Papis, Paul Newman, Max Angelelli, Robby Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr, David Hobbs, Dorsey Schroeder and many others. A lot of the drivers seek out the Corner Workers’ after-race beer party, thank us for our participation and suck down a few of our beers. A good time is had by all!

Waiting for the Morning Fog to lift at Sebring International Raceway …





The Turn One – Pit Out Flagging Station at Miami-Homestead Raceway …



The view from Pit-Out side of the Flag Station …



A busy Pit Lane on one side of us …



Double yellow for one more lap, while the mess going into Turn Two is cleaned up …



Checker’s out! Thumbs up to the Grand Am winner (one of the Chip Ganassi cars) on the cool-down lap …



Yours truly, “Doctor Decibel,” with the “Tools of the Trade” - microphone, decibel meter and the ubiquitous “fire bottle” …



As Race Weekend Staff, our Credentials permit us to go anywhere … except in the Grandstand!

Boris Said’s BMW getting a fresh V8 engine prior to the Saturday Grand Am Race …



The Indy Racing League was having an event at Miami-Homestead that same weekend on Sunday. Our Credentials were good for that event, too. Back in the Competitors’ Paddock, my daughter Jenna and I ran into Sarah Fisher …


Sitting on the Pit Wall in Sarah Fisher’s Pit for the IRL race (by invitation) …



It’s great fun, the people are the best, we always have a “beer social” after the last engine is turned off (it’s the Race Staff’s version of Happy Hour) … and if you like racing, you can’t get any closer to the action than working as a Corner Marshall, unless of course, you have a race car and drive it!

By the way, I never have been in the grandstand at any of these tracks for any of these events!

Don't know if these are hobbies as such, but I am into shooting. I've been an amateur trap shooter for a good 30 years now, but not a really good one since I probably don't shoot more than about once a month now. I do target pistol and rifle shooting a few times a month, it's a lot easier on your shoulders than shooting shotguns. Around here there are still spots in the desert that you can go any time of the year to shoot, but they're getting fewer and fewer as man encroaches into the wilderness. On top of that, I write articles for newspapers. Sometimes I get paid, most of the time I don't, but it's fun and it keeps me occupied when I need to take it easy.

As for hobbies, I do woodworking, cabinets, desks, built-ins and the like. Electronics was my profession so I tend to no include that as a hobby but as a necessity.

I started out building Model airplanes, but i was never really successful at it. Right now, i have a half finished RB47H Stratojet, and a YB49 flying wing under construction, and an A-10 thunderbolt and B36H Peacemaker next in line for assembly.

The biggest problem i have is that filling in the seems on the wings and fuselage is nearly impossible for me to get right. Its even more confusing, since they suggest painting the parts before assembly, but i can see this getting in the way later when you need to sand and fill things.

No winning i guess!

Too cool One 'L", I used to crew on a few Late Models and worked a touring series out west here called Westcar. Our driver Shannon Mansch took the 2006 championship and that was a ton of fun.

I sure hope Sarah Fisher is a much better Indycar driver though than a stock car driver; she ran a few races out here in Stockton and GAWD she SUCKED. She just couldn;t get the hang of it. I do hope she's found her groove now though.

Nowadays, aside from work, model railroading is about the only hobby I have time for. I have however, been helping a few friends restore a trio of 1942 and 1943 WWII Ford GPW (Army Jeeps). Those are a real kick in the pants, and since I have a vinyl cutter, I end up making stencils and doing all of their paint and lettering for them.

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