[Boatanchors] Saturday Happy Halli-Ween Net

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Please join us on Saturday October 31st for the regular 40 Meter HHI net.
But since it is also Halloween, the for real official Magician's holiday,
and since I am a professional Magician/Illusionist, be there or take your
chances with a rabid pumpkin with five teeth, a goofy grin and a glow that
isn't from its teeth being pumice polished!

On Sunday I will be doing a 'kind of - sort of - Special Event, using the
W9WZE callsign of the late Bill Halligan, Sr., as a day late, but better
then never, Happy Halli-Ween fun Sunday. So be there and help your body
shake off its sugar rush from helping your children, or grandchildren,
devour their candy collection. Or as you explained it to them, Dad or
Grandpa was just taste testing to be sure it was safe for them to eat!

Last Saturday the impossible happened. We had in state propagation, adjacent
state propagation and ... It was like the old days when we could talk one on
one without a relay or landline in between! Fantastic fun!

The first station I heard calling me was thirty miles north and west of
Chicago, IL! That was the first time I have heard any Ham west of MI in two
years! Fantastic! But would the waves remain or vanish faster then cold
lemonaid at a Summer picnic? Then the voice of one of our super technically
gifted Hams came roaring out of my sound system and nearly caused me to
experience one of those Fruit Of The Looms OOPS! moments. It was N8AZC,
Michael from central southeastern Ohio. Things were starting to get
exciting. But was Mother Nature, Father Time or the propagation entities
just setting us up so they could pull the plug on the D layer?

The propagation remained and a great time was enjoyed by all. Like a family
reunion without beer, relatives that you smile at but inwardly can't stand
and the mosquitoes eat more then you do! It was sixteen weeks ago that this
last happened. Before that? About two years!

After I got over the initial shock that there were still Homo Sapiens living
to the west of Michigan, and that those rumors of the famous fault line that
runs from Washington state through California had not caused all land west
of my QTH to have fallen into the ocean, I put a sheet of paper in the
vintage Perkins Braille Writer and a log was born!

So before your door bell starts to ring and a chorus of voices start
shouting "Trick Or Treat", go with the glow from vintage radios instead of
ghoulish gourds and join us for the Saturday edition of the HHI 40 meter
Net. Hear you tomorrow!

Pre-Net: 12:30 PM EST/EDT, or 1630 UTC
HHI Net: 1:00 PM EST/EDT, or 1700 UTC
Frequency: Like always, 7.280 MHZ lsb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and 
stations drifting by asking if their new antenna is working? Don't you just 
love to ask them to repeat that last transmission or to boost their power or 
to crank their mike gain up etc. (snicker) Not that I would ever do such a 
thing, but there are those moments of temptation!


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

Hallicrafters web site: www.w9wze.net
HHRP web site: hhrp.w9wze.net