[Hallicrafters] Frogzilla To Bail Out The Halli Sunday Net?

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

If Your Bit Bucket Has A digital Hole, Start Treading H2O!



By Duane B. Fischer, W8DBF



As those of you who have been watching the Whether Weather

channel observed, Michigan has been getting hammered like a

peg on a Play School work bench the past two days. I had to

flush the rain gauge, twice! This large storm dropped anchor

over MI and emptied the ballast tanks! It thundered on and

off from Thursday evening until after sunrise this morning.

Then the Sun hung the clouds out to drip dry!

It was so overcast, that my DSS system failed and I missed

both Babble The King Of The Elephants and Rainbow Trout

Scout. I do not pay HBO Family to be disappointed, I get

enough of that from the taxes I pay for services the township

never delivers on!

I knew I was in trouble, when Frogzilla floated by atop

the wooden outhouse from the girl Scout camp down the road!

By the grin on his face, I got the feeling that it just might

have been occupied when it took to the sea! He had his

Captain Nemo hat on and was shouldering a harpoon gun loaded

with a toilet plunger. Right behind him came three wooden

picnic tables with smoking camp site grills riding high and

dry. Some of the smaller Frogs were using Ping-pong paddles

trying to steer the picnic tables as the current carried

them along. Others were busily flipping Watercress

patties stuffed with Mosquitoes marinated in Jack Daniel's

bourbon. I wonder what the Girl Scout counselors were doing

with bourbon? Cleansing wounds, no doubt!

Well unless the waters recede, the thunder stops

rattling the fillings in my teeth and the lightning quits

roasting the transformers on the utility poles like overdone

marshmallows over a Girl Scout camp fire using a propane tank

equipped with an afterburner, there will not be an all you

can swallow deep fried Mosquito buffet at the HHI Pond for

any amphibian of the Order Salientia with Ranidae family

relatives showing their ARRL membership card. Or for that

matter, any humans aboard a self-inflating Navy surplus life

raft clutching a Swiss Steak TV dinner and shouting if anyone

had a light!

I am down to my last ten gallons of gasoline for the Generac

generator and I can't find the neighbor's van to siphon any

more! The creep must have moved it.

If the water in the backyard goes down enough so I can

flush the toilet without creating clouds of smelly bubbles,

if the little Frogletts in amphibian survival training unhook

the blasted life boats from my 20 meter trap on the vertical,

and if I can convince the pizza delivery girl to swim over

here with a double pepperoni with extra cheese, then I will

be on the air for the HHI net!

So just in case, float on by at 12:45 PM EST/EDT, 1645

UTC), for the frequency sump pump scum sucking session. Then

cast your fate to the wind and drop your Boat's anchor at

1:15 PM EST/EDT, (1715 UTC). Remember the frequency is

14.293 +/- for key clicks, your dog's Ticks, mike splatter

and adjacent excessive chatter, from Shamoo the capacitor

crunching killer Snail! If you can't make it for that bit of

nautical fun and boat anchor dropping, then cruise on by

between 1:15 PM EDT, (1715 UTC), until 2:59 PM, (1859 UTC)

for the marine life segment. Here you can listen as I try to

key the mike, write notes on waterproof Braille paper and

ride a Sea Horse on loan from Sea World because unlike some

mortals, I can not walk on water! If that is not enough to

get you out of the suit bleaching chlorinated swimming pool,

off the bacteria contaminated beach, out of the Mustang

convertible before the Cops realize it is stolen, and in

front of your hotter than a Hog in a sona Halli, then

consider this. Frogzilla will be offering full color glossy

prints of his Frogship, web auto-footed by himself and

eighteenth cousin Kermit, along with a collection of tales

from the Frogzilla Files, to some lucky check in tomorrow!

And all you have to do is take your medication like the

Psychiatrist ordered and promise not to break any dishes if

the cook catches you trying to sneak a peak down her top and

dumps your hot Clam chowder in your tank top pocket!

This could be more fun than a water balloon fight at a

water soluble makeup artists convention! So loosen up those

electronic paddles, wade on in and bring a bucket to bail the

boat anchor out with. At the rate I am going, maybe to bail

me out too! Did brother Noah's Ark have a brig? Just don't

try to bail your boat with a bit bucket gone bottomless!



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