[Hammarlund] Join HCI Saturday 40 Meter Net And Bring Propagation Along!

[W8DBF D.B. Fischer]

Please brave the propagation drought and join us on Saturday April 29th for
the HCI 40 meter Net. Hopefully today, I will 'net' more than I did last
Saturday. I felt like one of those small family run for a hundred years
northeast fishing ships who was catching pull tabs, disposable diapers with
a half life of ten thousand years or tread impaired rubber tires with steel
side walls that not even a baby Shark will chew on to cut his teeth! Those
fishermen are suffering due to overfishing, diseases that nearly wiped out
the fish population and health hazards to humans from the Mercury and other
poisons the fish have either eaten in their normal diet or absorbed from the
polluted Atlantic Ocean. Truly tragic and my personal best wishes to those
people are extended! Every now and then a marine mobile, some even using
vintage gear, checks in. Perhaps if enough of you show up later on today we
can have a Net no matter where the propagation is bouncing around like a
teenager who drank a few too many of those 'power' soft drinks!

The pre-Net will commence at 12:30 PM EDT, (1630 UTC). The Net proper begins
at 1:00 PM EDT, (1715 UTC) until about 2:30 PM EDT, (1830 UTC).

The frequency will be 7.280 MHZ lsb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and
the startling vocalizations of my neighbor's new pet. Ever heard a Mexican
Hairless dog bark in Espanol with a stutter that sounds like it is a
reincarnation of a gangster known as Machine gun Kelly? Well you can sure
hear this one! If you have ever seen one of these 'dogs', and I use that
designation very liberally, it looks like a large, but skinny, Rat who had
its hair fall out right after somebody smacked in in the nose with a wooden
mallet! I do not want to call the dog ugly, but unless it sneaks up on a
bowl of water to get a drink, the water evaporates and the bowl tries to
roll away!

Being blind is an advantage in this case, as I do not have to look at it! On
the other hand, my super sensitive ears can not but help to hear it
sputtering away like a firecracker fuse with uneven amounts of black powder
rolled up into the old fuse! But somebody out there loves them, maybe even
finds them cute and cuddly. Or else the neighbor is planning on carving it
up for Mother's Day!

Here is hoping to hear 'you' instead of static. So let's crowd the clouds
and try to make the grass grow with some of that magical glow from the
vintage wonders that still go glow in the dark!

Duane Fischer, W8DBF
NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International

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