[Boatanchors] Amphibian Alert! Frogzilla Finds A Pad

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Beware ye with an allergy or sensitivity to amphibian creatures! Apply your
anti itch and "don't scratch" resistant creams, ugly red blotch Epidurmas
layer remover ointment, take your OTC antihistimine )As long as your
physician authorizes it!), soak the affected part - or your entire body - in
the slightly used ice chips and geometrically incorrect wrecked-tangular
cubes that McDonalds pitches out the backdoor, bite a five watt Carbon
resistor with a 5% tolerance (when in doubt or if blind, get somebody who
can see to check for gold silver or some other faded metallic color band)
and be careful not to chip a tooth or if you really don't give a Chevy V/8
cam then drink a glass of whole milk slightly warmed with a pinch of Nutmeg
in it and go take a nap! Frogzilla is back at his pond, sitting atop a Lily
Pad waiting for the Michigan Sun to warm the water in his thirty inch
diameter imported Italian pink marblebird bath with the spouting fountain
that showers His Frogship with cool water to prevent brain burn so he can
flop in it on his back, elevate all four webbed feet to the solar poles and
snore like a chain saw being demonstrated. If you are not allergic, just
ignore him, throw him one of those new District of Columbia copper/nickel
clad quarters to confuse his Numismatic neurons and let the propagation
begin!

The Sunday June 14th HHI 20 meter Pre-Net will commence at 12:45 PM EST/EDT,
1645 UTC, with the seventies rock group Three Dogs To A Knight doing their
speckled trout stream BillBored rendition of Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog. If
that is not enough excitement to make your metabolic rate melt five pounds
of body fat off faster then a teenage male devouring a watermelon and
spitting the seeds across two picnic tables and a turnip court and down some
females tank top, forget the Net! Chances are that you are already more dead
then the pair of finals in your TX that have been dipped so many times that
they have Dip-Thoria!

The Net proper will start with the world famous Folk trio of Peter, Paul and
Hairy doing their big late sixties hit entitled "I'm In Love With A big Blue
Phrog". Fact! I did not make that one up guys! Catchy tune, confusing lyrics
and nice harmony! It ought to clean up any adjacent stations calling "CQ QSO
Party", however!

The frequency will be 14.293 MHZ usb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and
my new neighbor's invisible electronic fence that doubles as a 3 LNB
satellite antenna and hums loud enough to put the darn Crickets and
Fireflies into sleep mode! So listen for W8DBF from 14.292 MHZ up through
14.293 MHZ. Somewhere over the rainbow, and between the acid rain endowed
clouds and the UV radiation wandering in through the hole in our planets
Ozone layer, I will be parked as the HHI 20 meter Net NCS.

Just because some of you have asked: I aim the Mosley TA-33 due south from
my QTH in southeastern MI at 83W and then I move it to due east for
checkins, then to the west for the California crew and then back to the
south. In between the antenna giving the Ham iii rotor its weekly exercise I
use the Hustler 4BTV vertical. So if I do not hear you calling, do not
despair, say bad words about the junk the NCS is using for equipment or send
me on the air hate mail. I never read   electronic mail while I am trying to
bounce RF off the D Layer to an area near you. By the time I get around to
checking it, the Net is over and I am too tired to care! Just keep calling
CQ and either I, or one of the many relay stations will hear your bouncing
signal and net it! (Groan!)

The propagation borrowed some of my Magic today during the forty meter Net
and did a sudden vanishing act of its own! I answered a question from our
Web Master, W5JT, Jim, and when I let up on the hammer I got nailed by WX
racket and dead air! The Net was gone like last weeks paycheck! Truthfully,
I thought my TX had failed and I was sending smoke signals instead of LSB!
So I did a quick tour of the forty meter band and heard only a few stations.
I attempted to make contact with several of the loud ones, but nobody
responded. I could not even get into MIDCARS! Finally I found a station in
southern Illinois who was so close to the border of Kentucky that he said he
could spit over it. He said my station sounded fine to him, but the audio
was a little muffled, but he did need to change his hearing aid batteries so
that might be why I sounded like I had a mouth full of peanut butter trying
to do one of those "Peter Piper ate a pint of pickled peppers and burned
down the whole darn town!" I thanked him and wandered back to 7.280 MHZ lsb
and called it a day!

Here is hoping to hear a lot of you tomorrow! So drift on in, drop your
anchor and lets enjoy those wonders that still go glow in the dark!

Go with the glow!


Duane Fischer, W8DBF - WPE8CXO
E-Mail: dfischer at usol.com

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