Best wishes this Holiday Season to the both of you. I hope you have a "Blue Christmas"..Wink!

I would send you a White Christmas, but I can just imagine the untold terror that this would have on California.

I miss you my friends.

Actually, I am surprised the Thales has not begun a heavy recruitment campaign in our area looking for more Phil's..(although I'm sure the Engineers would cringe at this idea!)

Merry Christmas..

Deral Paulk, PLS OK

Merry Christmas and a prosperous new year to you and all those who know and care about me.

Snow in Silicon Valley. They say it has happened but I have not seen it yet. It is one of the things about "home" that I have yet to miss.

I am glad that email lets me stay as close as I can to so many of my friends and family.

As far as more Phil's??? That tickles me. I figure I drive them nuts. I broke something they gave me to try out a while back and some of them started laughing. Billy Bob Surveyor has struck again!

Tell em' if Billy Bob is happy, then most likely you have a good product..

If he can't break it, then they will not have an warranty worries.

I notice alot of your posts mention that Sharon does alot of the testing also when you get home. Is she on some sort of consultant contract? She should be..Thales is getting two for one.

Here's a simple question for the board?

Who would you trust more when contemplating a purchase?

Billy Bob, the creator of 'Doing it in the Dirt" or

Marketing Bob, the creator of the latest ad..

Heck..That's no contest.


Plus, You need to incorporate the Pizza Pan in the PM2's. It will not increase accuracy, but the look is just too cool!

Deral Paulk, PLS OK
My motto "Have Shovel will Dig"

The pizza pan innovations are probably going to have to be left to Dave. He has even started calling himself Dangerous Dave.

Poking and prodding is something that Sharon often gets roped into because I get confused trying to read instructions and do what they say. Anybody who has read the Stop&Go instructions in the ProMark2 manual knows what I am talking about.

So sometimes I give Sharon the manual and tell her what I am trying to do. Then she watches me and does her Master Yoda thing.

No try. Do!

She also has better manual dexterity than I do. When I get to working on some of these tiny new devices I often need her hands to help me.

After more than 32 years of being married to me she has almost grown used to having me around.

After spending some time with Marketing Bob I have decided there is a need for both of us. My imagination would never have come up with the things you have already seen, let alone the things you have not. Marketing Bob is not limited by "but this is how it is supposed to work".

I wore a 28 pound backpack for five years. Marketing Bob has made it much lighter weight since I bought mine.

Phil,

I was perfectly happy as just another Dave, yet seems one day a while back when your phone rang with me on the other end your first question to me was "are you being DANGEROUS today Dave?" hence the moniker has become.
NOW, there exists as you well know certain individuals that can break a crowbar in a sandbox. I could have told you that even though the ZMax appears that it could be used to drive a T post, I wouldn't try it.
Geesh, I'll never live down the day I revealed the pizza pan antenna to JD and Shawn......

MERRY CHRISTMAS from the once was warm but getting chillier SOUTH!

Dave
Dangerous Dave ;)
Modified By Dave Huff on 12/24/2003 at 2:17 AM

Dave, you are one of the reasons why I read this message board.

I have a little science experiment this Christmas weekend. I have been testing the properties of the deep dish 12" against the 18" standard pizza pan.

Has the NGS finished the calibration on these models yet or do you have some values to compute the PRP (Pizza Reference Point)..

My results are not finished, but I did notice if you did not clean the pan and left bits of sausage and pepperoni that it seemded to actually create multi-path (plus on a very warm day it made me hungry).

Dave, Deral , JD...Lot's of "D's" in all all those names. Are we the Dangerous Trio?

Deral Paulk, PLS OK

You guys, along with Jimbo and perhaps a few others, should put together a Krewe and have your own parade float.

I'm not sure what else would be on it but the collection of GPS antennas alone would have people asking if you can get the game on that thing.

Geesh Deral, how many times do I have to tell you, pepperonis and sausage are NOT good for the data. Keep the cheese on the South side of the antenna and the "real" secret is in the sauce---go very light on the sauce----tomato paste based sauce that is.

Peace on Earth, Good will towards men, including Oklahomans.

Dave Huff, PLS MS,TN

Now that would be the LSU game, CORRECT?