[Hallicrafters] Amphibian Alert! Frogzilla Seen On A Lily Pad At His 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
Hallicrafters web site: www.w9wze.net
HHRP web site: hhrp.w9wze.net