[Boatanchors] Join Sunday HCI Net 35 State Challenge!

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

As always, all flavors and cents of vintage gear are welcome - )if it's not
vacuum - Just fake it!) 	
	
IF there are 35 states that somebody checks in from tomorrow, Sunday March 21st,
a special radio related prize will be awarded on the basis of a random drawing
to be held on Sunday March 28th during the first ten minutes of that Net. You
need not be present on March 28th to win! 	
	
When you check in tomorrow, once I recognize you by call sign, as I always do to
be certain it is the correct call sign, please announce your state.    	
	
The Sunday HCI 20 meter Net will commence with the pre-Net portion at 12:45 PM
EST, (1745 UTC). However, I will be on the air testing this new piece of
equipment starting at 12:15 PM EST, (1715 UTC), so stop in and lend me your
ears. Some cash wouldn't hurt either!  	
	
The Net proper will begin at 1:15 PM EST, (1815 UTC). Remember, that the USA
goes on Daylight Savings Time at 2:00 AM on April 4th! 	
	
The frequency will be 14.293 MHz usb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and the
sound of disoriented Sea Gulls fertilizing my house roof as they circle over the
entire county trying to figure out where Lake Huron is! You know that little bit
of Iron ferrite in their brain that is supposed to function like a compass? Well
the leader of this flock got shorted a few iron filings and has his auto-pilot
stuck on circle. They have now been at it for four days and my roof looks like
it got white washed! Nothing like a dark gray asphalt shingled roof with white
blotches on it to get you the neighborhood most suitable to be condemned award!
This poor roof looks like it has some horrible disease like Leprosy! Naturally
my politically correct neighbors, at least those that speak English, keep
shouting things like "Do you suppose that blind man living in that house with
the bird dung all over the roof knows how bad it looks and how it is affecting
the value of our property? Do you suppose we should get several people and go
over there and tell him?" (Why is it that sighted people think a blind person is
also deaf? They shout at you from two feet away. Seriously.) Whereupon I shout
back as I walk back from getting my mail at the road: "So take up a collection
to get my roof power washed and if one of you can figure out which end of a
shotgun to load with number six bird shot, shoot these pooping Pigeons!"        

	
Why am I so lucky? Couldn't they deposit their excrement on the neighbor to the
east who likes to boil and eat them with the feathers still on? They just moved
in two months back from some country in northern Africa, right after the other
neighbors who ate the neighborhood pets got arrested and deported. They made the
mistake of eating the Guide Dog of the totally blind Circuit Judge who lives on
the corner! Maybe it is because I have all of these towers up and the birds seem
to thing they are there as a rest stop during their travels. Guess they have not
yet figured out why there is a pile of dead Black Birds below the forty meter
wire antenna! Hmmm. Wonder if that had something to do with the filament to grid
short in the 3-500 in the Heathkit SB-221 HF amp? 	
	
I hope to hear you tomorrow as the HCI Net starts year number six with me as
NCS! Hear you then - 	
	
Duane Fischer, W8DBF	
NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International