[Boatanchors] Probable Propagation Prognostication For HCI Net

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

All vintage gear is always welcome -   	
	
Remember the three 'P's' of football in high school? Punt, Pass and Pulverize!
Well Saturday August 17Th the HCI 40 meter Net will  attempt to do all three.
Beginning with the pre-Net follies at 12:30 PM EDT, (1630 UTC), we will take
three large steps backwards and punt the 24 inch oval satellite dish upwards
like a large Frisbee and watch it spiral into a low hanging cloud. Because it is
negatively charged (the direct TV rate increase got many of us charged up
negatively!), and the cloud that is hanging low is positively charged, they will
swap electrons like teenage lovers swapping spit. Or is that called French
kissing? No matter, that cloud will take off like Bart Starr cocked his arm back
and unleashed a 105 yard pass right into the end zone hitting the receiver flush
between the eyes and knocking him out colder than a frozen Slurpie at the North
Pole! The cloud will break up like the football player's teeth as he impacts the
ground and the propagation will pour on through the opening like teenage boys
into Hooters on beach blanket bingo night! 	
	
Be there when the HCI 40 meter Net officially commences at 1:00 PM EDT, (1700
UTC) with a chorus of blaring trumpets like an Elephant ensemble tuning up to do
their rendition of Dave 'Baby' Cortez's Baby Elephant Walk. Or did he do the
Happy Organ? No matter. Just be there and we will deal with the facts later on,
as the news media loves to do. 	
	
The frequency will be 7.280 Mhz lsb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and the
sound of players practicing the three 'P's' of post game cool down. Perspiring
like the circus fat lady in an Inca steam bath, Puffing like a Sumo wrestler who
got the herbal exlax and extract mixed up and is trying to sprint up the two
mile path to the Pikes Peak outhouse area and Pukeing like a college campus
fountain that athletes dumped their home brew beer in just as the campus police
arrived to investigate rumors of a cheerleader panty raid going down.       	
	
I hope to hear many of you there later today. Last week the propagation was so
weird that I heard myself as an echo on long path! Maybe we can bounce a signal
off Voyager #1 now at a distance of 7.9 billion miles from Earth. Unfortunately
even at light speed of 186,242 miles per second it will require twelve hours for
the signal to get from here to there and another twelve to get back. Wonder what
it will find when it reaches the point at which the Sun's influence is zero? If
the nuclear power plant holds out for a few more years, we may know the answer
to that and other questions too. Until then, join us for some Hallicrafters
facts, fun, restoration rumors and generic gossip of vintage rigs of all
flavors. You just never know what the HCI Net will snare - 	
	
Duane Fischer, W8DBF 	
NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International	
netcontrol@w9wze.org