[Boatanchors] Join HCI Saturday 40 Meter Net!

[Duane B. Fischer, W8DBF]

Please join us on Saturday April 9th for the Hallicrafters Collectors
International 40 meter Net. It will commence with the pre-Net at 12:30 PM EDT,
(1630 UTC). The Net proper will begin at 1:00 PM EDT, (1700 UTC). The frequency
will be 7.280 MHZ lsb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and the eardrum rattling
reverberations of the new electronic Mole catching and incinerating device a
friend bought for me at this locally owned place called Couzin Rufus's Feed,
Seed, Compost And Extermination One Stop Shop Barn. When you get a glimpse of ol
Cuz Rufus, he sort of puts you in mind of a jig saw puzzle with a couple of
pieces missing! He could have easily won, had there been a competition, and been
the poster boy for Steven King's horror movie bin at K-Mart! When he smiles, it
is a sort of crooked grin where only half of his mouth participates! There is a
gap between his top front teeth that you could drive a John Deere tractor
through! One ear sits about half of an inch higher than the other and he has
just one very hairy eyebrow that looks like it is related to the bristles on a
wire brush! One eyelid has a drooping kind of sag in it that makes him appear to
be on the verge of falling asleep while the other one is so far open that it
looks like a gigantic yellowish white marble with a bluish swirl in the center! 
       	
	
If you remember seeing that infamous MAD magazine cover with that homely
adolescent named Alfred E. Neuman staring back at you with that look of total
vacancy, this guy makes old Alfred look like Jimmy Dean in that famous fifties
chick flick called 'Rebel Without A Cuz'!	
	
I am not really sure what this electronic thing is supposed to do to capture and
then humanely dispose of ground Moles, but I have to do something. My yard used
to look like a beautiful green velvet carpet, then the new neighbor planted her
huge garden, fertilized everything with some super potion she brewed up in the
largest crock pot I have ever seen, and turned every scrawny undernourished and
out of shape grub into plump muscle rippling grubs that broke the beaks off any
bird dumb enough to try to have them for lunch! Now Moles love grubs, it is
their favorite food. Not only did she have turnips large enough so the Globe
Trotters could dribble them down the basketball court, she had more Moles in her
yard than populate the entire state of Vermont! Naturally they had to explore my
Copper ground system, so over they came. Before long my beautiful well manicured
yard looked more like the top of a round birthday cake that six children on a
sugar buzz decorated with CO2 cartridge powered frosting squirt guns and ended
up with what looked like the to scale map of the entire New York City subway
system! Except it was not NYC, these Mole tunnels were covering every square
inch of my yard! The ground was so uneven that you had to use a balance pole
like a tight rope walker does, just to walk across the yard. 	
	
I will have to wait and see what this device does to eliminate the Mole problem,
but do not be shocked if you hear strange high pitched squealing sounds that are
not from RF getting into my transmitter!	
	
hear you tomorrow!	
	
Duane Fischer, W8DBF	
NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International	
netcontrol at w9wze.org