[Hammarlund] Join Saturday HHI 40 Meter Net!

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

If it glows, you are welcome! If it is vintage, or you are, you are welcome! 
If its solid state, remain silent and don't blurt out a confession over the 
air and nobody will know you are cheating!

Please tune in the Saturday November 10th edition of the HHI 40 meter Net
tomorrow. Hopefully there will be some short propagation instead of the much
hated 300 mile zone of death!

The Pre-Net commences at 12:30 PM EST, 1730 UTC, and the Net proper starts
at 1:00 PM EST, 1800 UTC. The frequency, as always and probably forever, is
7.280 MHZ lsb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and static from my new
neighbor's invisible electric animal fence thing. Somehow such a device
seems cruel to me, but what do I know? Having been on the road for over
thirty years as a professional Magician/Illusionist I have certainly
vanished more then my share of rabbits! Even a few Skunks! Lots of offers to
vanish wives or ex-wives, but I declined them. Can't trust those out of
state checks! Certainly can not file a complaint with the local law
enforcement people!
"You accidentally chopped off the head of a female member of the audience
when your Guillotine malfunctioned and want us to arrest the guy who wrote
you a bad check for volunteering her?" But when animals have an unfortunate
on stage accident, I only get hate mail from the ASPCA!

But shocking a dog or cat with that electronic collar thing around their
necks when they cross the property line, not so sure that is not something
the ASPCA should send some hate mail about. I never realized that a bow
legged French Poodle could jump that high! Remember that verse we all heard
as kids; "Hey diddle diddle, the cat played the fiddle, and the dog jumped
over the Moon", or something like that. Well this Poodle darn near got over
the thirty foot high Granny Smith apple tree before gravity brought him back
to the turf. Unfortunately he got impailed on the barbed wire on top of
their security fence around the childrens sandbox and barked no more.

Have you read those reports about some Hams keying up and accidentally
opening their neighbors garage doors, setting off security alarms and
causing those invisible fence collars to shock pets? True! Anybody want to
put one of those collars on this nasty Raccoon that keeps attacking my
galvanized steel garbage cans and leaving steaming piles of excrement on my
shed roof? You do not have to volunteer, I am even willing to pay you in
cash or radio stuff!

So join us tomorrow and lets have some vintage vacuum tube radio fun, facts
and fellowship. Hear you then.


Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
dfischer at usol.com


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