[Boatanchors] HCI Sunday Frog Pond Lighthouse QSO

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

All vintage gear and operators are always welcome -   	
	
Yo Homo Sapiens! The old blind dude wore himself out packing up some WW2 Morale
receiver and is now snoring like a chain saw with a fouled spark plug in his
favorite recliner. The man needs a new set of points and his timing adjusted! I
heard there is some kind of Lighthouse party going on this weekend so I am
offering you Hallicrafters dudes one of my special Frogzilla frog pond post
cards. Now I don't have a license for Ham radio, but what is the FCC going to do
to me for operating without one? Put me in a terrarium and feed me dried Fly's
from the local college Biology lab? 	
	
I've got this really cool strobe light with something like ten thousand candle
power. The teenagers I borrowed it from had messed up the tag on the back with
some sort of file or grinding wheel, so it is hard to read what it says. I've
got it bolted to the top of the thirty-five foot high life guard tower I
borrowed from the local beach. Hey, it was Winter, like they weren't using it!
When I plug it in to the extension cord I have running through the trees to the
power outlet on the neighbor's pool deck and press the 'ON' button, like the
street lights dim! Way cool! It is so bright that the birds flying within a
quarter mile go temporarily blind and crash into everything. They are falling
out of the sky like hot air balloons at a NRA target practice seminar.  Sort of
like that movie called the "Birds" that some nut case called Alfred Petcock
wrote. So if you want one of my Lighthouse post cards, be on the air at 12:30 PM
EDT, (1630 UTC) on 14.293 Mhz usb. What is UTC anyhow? Some kind of term one of
those Startrek dudes invented so that green eared Vulcan who never smiled could
confuse everyone? 	
	
Now this is not exactly a Lighthouse, as there are no boats on the frog pond.
Well, except for the annual hydro lily pad unlimited races. You have not lived
until you strap your buttocks on a lily pad with a McCulloch 2 cycle chainsaw
engine burning methanol kicking up a ten foot rooster tail of pond scum and
chewed up kelp! Now and then a few minnows get caught in the prop and we serve
them later on fresh water cress with some of that hot French mustard. But one of
the old Bull Frogs has an intestinal gas problem and sounds like a tug boat horn
when he raises a webbed foot and breaks wind, so with him making those
Lighthouse beware of the sharp rocks that will rip the bottom of your dingy out
sounds, and that strobe light flashing, it is almost as much fun as a real
Lighthouse on the Great Lakes. So show up and get one of these special post
cards if you can get that thing that still goes glow in the dark to work and not
drift off frequency like apiece of driftwood caught in the undertow! Isn't that
what they call a green eyed blonde who has been at sea too long with her sail
down, drifty? Croak! Croak! Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead and over the
dam we go -      	
	
Just be sure to send a mailing label and a stamp. The old blind dude gets really
upset when I send my ten thousand cousins greeting cards and use stamps I
printed with his computer! Sometimes he has no sense of humor. Got to hop before
he gets the urge to test flush the toilet and catches me at the keyboard. Croak
at ya tomorrow. Be there or beSea Cow dung! 	
	
Frogzilla	
	
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