[Boatanchors] Hear Echo On Saturday HCI 40 Meter Net

[Duane B. Fischer, W8DBF]

Please join us on Saturday May 14th for the HCI: Hallicrafters Collectors
International, 40 meter Net. It will commence with a pre-Net portion 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 that
distinct KERCHING echo heard only when the transmitted signal hits one of the
outer rings of the planet Saturn, is deflected back toward the Earth, runs wave
front trough up into the asteroid Vesta between Jupiter and Mars, bounces around
like silly putty on a caffeine buzz, does a bank shot off that burned baked
potato shaped little moon of Mars, heads back for the Earth with the pedal to
the metal, gets caught in the electronic junk yard 25,000 miles above Terra
Firma, bounces around from one broken satellite to half smashed space craft to
spent booster engine like a beam of light in a house of mirrors, streaks into
the ionosphere in a dazed and confused electrical state, desperately grabs the
first antenna it senses, slides down the coax and into whatever the heck is
waiting there to detect its presence and cause a skinny little needle to twich
spasmodically. Eureka! "It's only a S2, Q1, but it be long path dude! It don't
mean a thing, if it ain't got that Saturn ring!"   	
	
So join us on Saturday and let's play the old propagation shell game. Hear you
then! Oh yes, that ringing in your ears, is not from Saturn. It's either your
hearing aid battery about to do the high kick off or your Shack smoke detector
has a shorted capacitor and is trying to sing out for help!	
	
Duane Fischer, W8DBF	
NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International		
netcontrol at w9wze.org