[Boatanchors] Join Saturday HCI 40 Meter Net & Save A Tree!

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Please join us on Saturday February 11th for the Hallicrafters Collectors
International 40 meter Net.

The pre-Net will commence at/about 12:30 PM EST, (1730 UTC). The Net proper
begins at 1:00 PM EST, (1800 UTC). The frequency will be 7.280 MHZ lsb +/-
for key clicks, mike splatter and the wound more tightly than an eight day
clock crazed contesters foaming at the lip as they drool on their desk mike
puff, pop or pucker  filter or corrode the brass contacts on the straight
key with their acidic dribble. (You pounders of Brass do realize it is not a
naturally occuring element, right? It is an alloy of Copper and Zinc, plus a
tiny percentage of several other metals mixed in. Which is why you are never
supposed to touch the exposed unprotected surface of the metal with your
bare fingers, and impart some human body oils. The result of doing so is
Brass with more spots than a Leopard who got too close to a tie dye party!
Some antique experts say it is good to coat the Brass with a protective
spray clear plastic to prevent corrosion and discoloration. Personally, I am
in favor of coating anyone proclaiming himself/herself as an "Expert" with
protective plastic to prevent contamination of the rest of us!)  You can
always tell which Hams are serious contestors, as the flora and fauna, (for
the scientific term impaired, those are plants and animals native to a
specific geographical area), are either brown and dead or a putrid pale
green with a hacking cough, and the grass is always a sickly gray with a
little green on the tip of the shoot.  Evidence it is making one last
desperate attempt to use its waxy blue-black microcrystalline C55H72MGN405
substance, AKA Chlorophyl to jump start the conversion of incident light to
chemical energy, AKA photosynthesis, by the synthesis of organic compounds
from inorganic compounds, especially carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and
water, into plant food before it, the green grass or other green plant,
starves to death! This also removes, and helps regulate, a potentially
deadly build up of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere, which if inhaled by
Homo Errectus Stupidous, AKA humans, tends to convert them into plant
fertilizer! Additionally, the green plants while inhaling in the Carbon
Dioxide through their stomatas also exhale Oxygen for us to breathe. How do
we thank them? We bake them with industrial strength RF into dead brown
husks, pulverize them into dust mulch with yard rollers and if any survive,
we cut their heads off with razor sharp knives spun around by murderous gas
sucking riding lawn mowers that spew out more air pollution than the sum of
gas vapors vented into the atmosphere by those participating in the annual
World Beer Tasting Festival held in the Black Forest of Bavaria!

Now if that isn't enough to make you so outraged that you call the TV
provider you help support on a monthly basis and cancel your entire ESPN
football package to help save the lives of those blades of grass that those
three hundred pound yard rollers with cletes are thoughtlessly killing as
they pursue the bladder somebody kicked as hard as he could while everyone
beat the snot out of each other trying to catch it first, after some butcher
chopped it out of some unfortunate Pig, stuffed a red Delicious apple into
his mouth and then roasted his remains over a roaring fire and called it
Barbecue! Once you burned your bra's and boxer shorts in protest, so burn
these machines of rolling death! Let the grass live, let it grow and let
there be an atmosphere left for your grandchildren to breathe without having
to wear a purification mask or just stay home in their air tight plastic
bubble!

Who cares if the grass gets so tall that it hides your house from being seen
from the road? Then the nosy neighbors won't be able to pay you one of those
neighborhood block group visits and give you sixty days to paint your house
or get the heck out of the hood!

Ah, sorry. I guess I got a little carried away there. Being trapped in a
house with snow up to the bottom of the window sills for three months tends
to make us northerners get what is called Cabin Feber.

Hope to hear you Saturday afternoon! Be there! Let the grass grow up to have
a deep voice before you whack its head off! Warm up thos wonders that still
go glow in the dark and let's play some radio.

Duane Fischer, W8DBF
NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International
netcontrol at w9wze.org

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