[Boatanchors] Tune In Saturday HCI 40 Meter Net!

[Duane B. Fischer, W8DBF]

Please tune us in on Saturday February 26th and get turned on to those wonders
that still go glow in the dark. No, not the kid's cat that got a flow in the
dark sticker stuck on the end of his curious nose and is now being leased out to
neighbors as a self-illuminating rodent catching night light! But the
Hallicrafters Collectors International 40 meter Net where we put a smile on your
face, a dent in your wallet and lots of pretty wires in the sky for the birds to
take a rest on and fertilize your lawn!    	
	
The pre-Net will commence at 12:30 PM EST, (1730 UTC). Frogzilla is back from
the Florida swamps and has a few tales about the recent Orlando Ham fest where
Sonny, WA9KXQ, Jim, WB8DML and others got caught on video tape the morning after
the prolonged hospitality hour the night before! They look worse than two sleep
deprived Beagles with bloodshot eyes, paws clutching a steaming Styrofoam cup of
black coffee weaving and wobbling among the tailgates like lost rental fishing
boats trying to dodge marker buoys while trying to navigate with dead batteries
in the GPS unit and a rudder a hungry Shark snacked on! We will hear what they
have to say about their adventures! 	
	
The Net proper will start at 1:00 PM EST, (1800 UTC). 
The frequency will be 7.280 MHZ lsb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and the
annoying sound of the new cute little portable ten inch TV my children got me
for Christmas for the Ham Shack, that keeps changing channels and reprogramming
itself every time I key the transmitter on forty meters! Last night I was very
pleased when my thirteen year old grandson, Brandon, and two of his buddies hung
around with Gramps in the Ham shack, until I discovered it was not my old S-120
that interested them, but the Playboy channel, which I do NOT subscribe to!, 
that somehow got unscrambled on my little TV! I guess I should have gotten
suspicious when none of them yawned loud and long, as teenagers are prone to do,
when afflicted by the blight of 'boring' when I explained the meaning of the
colors in the resistor color code! Well at least they were polite. 	
	
I hope to hear you tomorrow above the hiss of static, the sputtering of adjacent
neighbors slightly over deviated and the gargling sound of my new electronic
humidifier that seems to have developed a habit of clearing out its pipes and
spitting periodically on the floor! "Hey Brandon! Did you program this thing to
spit? No? Well then how come you are laughing, huh?"    	
	
	
Duane Fischer, W8DBF	'
NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International	
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