[Boatanchors] Join Halli Net And Tick Time Off

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Hi All,

Guess what? If there is not already enough confusion in the Cosmos as to

when the current solar cycle left solar minimum behind and headed toward

solar maximum, now the Tweedle Dumbs of time have us on their new daylight

savings time plan. Well, once again, those with way too much time on their

hands have messed with Mother Nature, never ever a wise thing to do!

The last entity to fool around with her was old Father Time. Remember him?

He used to co-host the solar system in the dark ages of the wearer having to

wind up the watch mainspring to keep time ticking. No, not those Dark Ages -

where if you ticked, your head got tocked off in the tower of London! These

were before somebody who had stock in a battery company figured out how to

stuff a tiny battery inside a watch to illuminate the digital display where

originally those things called hands and numerals called home! Father Time

tried to use the 'new math' to calculate a exponential calendar formula to

cause every equinox to occur on the twenty-first day of March, June,

September and December. Now since Mother Nature is of the gender commonly

known as female, and since females in their 'mothering years' are often

subject to fits of explosive emotional outbursts, worse by a magnitude of

ten then major solar flares, known as PMS, they demand having twenty-four to

forty-eight hours flexibility as to what days Spring, Summer, Autumn and

Winter occur. Father Time made the unfortunate mistake of springing his

curve of equinox equalization when Mother Nature was tormented by the

physical agony and emotional nitroglycerin volatility of her Bi-Polar PMS.

Very bad timing!

Now most of you who have not had your head buried up to your fifth cervical

vertebrae in landfill refuse searching for remnants of your original birth

certificate that your ex-wife ran through her paper shredder, have heard the

much proclaimed wrist watch advertising ploy "takes a kicking and keeps on

ticking". Right? Well, it really was not a clever Ad rhyme for the Timex

watch, but something said about anyone who survived the muscle bound Knight

swinging that double sided Axe and relieving prisoners of their heads and

aches and then surviving the food served in the fabled Tower Of London.

There were more bugs in what they served then are planted in the buildings

of Washington, D.C.!

Mother Nature gave Father Time a one way Lamehound diesel bus, leaky Tiki

glass bottom boat and single engine bi-plane ticket to the Caribbean. Talk

about the 'no frills' package! Now this did tick Father Time off for a

minute, but knowing that when it came to Mother Nature, a hour saved may be

all you have left to live! He bought a mil surplus GPS transmitting rescue

beacon, moonlight powered handheld Korean command radio, older then time

itself book by somebody named Thor on Easter Island about raft building and

enough MRE to feed the population of a starving third world country! Mother

Nature promised him that he could return just as soon as he finished the two

small tasks she had for him to do.

The last anyone knew Father Time was holed up in some tropical island cave

trying to invent a nutrino powered calendar for Big Ben that showed the

phases of Luna, the planting season for Mars and how long it would take for

heat resistant plants to breathe enough of the Carbon Dioxide on Venus to

allow astronauts to drain off the excessive amount of Sulfuric acid present!

Then to design a second hand for a sun dial accurate to one thousandth the

thickness of a slice of Quartz used in a modern watch with twin tuning

forks.

So if you have any complaints about the daylight savings plan that ticks off

Sunday March 9th at 2:00 AM EST, (0700 UTC), you would be wise to send them

to the National Bureau Of Standards in Boulder, Colorado and NOT by e-mail

to Mother Nature! That is, unless you would like to join Father Time in the

tropics and learn first hand how time flies when you are having fun!

The rest of you can join us on Saturday March 8th at 12:45 PM EST, (1745

UTC), for the HHI 40 meter Pre-Net. Then drop anchor so you do not drift

off, and join us for the Net proper at 1:00 PM EST, (1800 UTC). The

frequency will be 7.280 MHZ lsb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and

somebody shouting "CQ QSO Party" with someone else throwing a carrier on top

as they tune their rig up! Be there and enjoy the propagation as it dances

back and forth between short and long. If you hang ten and keep them

glowing, the band will open up in your area. So be patient!

Hear you tomorrow!





Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
dfischer at usol.com

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