[Boatanchors] Join Sunday HCI Net While The Moon Is Full

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

As always, all flavors and cents of vintage gear are welcome - (If it isn't
vacuum tubes, fake it!)   	
	
Join us on Sunday March 7th for a howling good time on the HCI 20 meter Net.
When the Moon is full it just makes those things that go glow in the darkness
seem even more enchanted and alluring. So light up those tubes, or valves as our
friends in the UK call them, and drift into the Net for some facts, fun,
fellowship and fumes from that out of tolerance resistor that just sent out some
rather acrid smoke signals!   	
	
Because the Moon is full, and those folklore enthusiasts are busy molding Silver
bullets to slay Werewolves with, and due to the fact that I have several
neighbors who dress like every day is Halloween, I am staying hidden under my
heavy solid Oak desk tonight! Perhaps I should stop playing that tape with the
Wolf howling on Halloween? 	
	
The pre-Net will commence at 12:45 PM EST, (1745 UTC) with Wily Coyote howling
in glee as he tenderizes that Road Runner who has tormented him for eons with
some 200 proof Kentucky moonshine before stuffing him into the microwave. What
happened to flame broiling anyhow?  	
	
The Net proper will begin at 1:15 PM EST, (1815 UTC), with an audio flashback to
those times when the one and only Wolfman Jack howled on a AM radio station in
that sandpaper voice of his "If you got the curves baby, I got the angles!" (The
Who 'Clap For The Wolfman') Did anyone ever figure out for sure if he was
transmitting from the southern California border or just over the cactus fence
from a Mexican station running several hundred kilowatts?    	
	
The frequency will be 14.293 mHz usb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and the
sound of lidless toilet seats sailing overhead in the annual township Porcelain
Throne Seat Hurling contest where the resident to fling the seat the greatest
distance wins a years supply of recycled toilet paper. All participants pay a $5
entry fee with all proceeds going to help purchase stun guns to render the sewer
Rats unconscious while the Animal Control people retrieve them for relocation in
the adjacent county. They used to just shoot them with small caliber pistols and
sell them to those Asian countries who think they are a tasty treat to eat, but
the ASPCA (American Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals) filed suit
because somebody got the Yen and Yang confused the local bank could not
calculate the exchange rate right and instead of Euros they got Yugos!    	
	
So get out those fake plastic fangs from last year's Halloween costume when your
son dressed as Countess Drakeula and your daughter as the Swan Princess and join
us for some fantastic fun and fellow ship you just can't get anywhere else at
any price. The Moon is full, so be there and let's howl!	
	
Duane Fischer, W8DBF	
NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International