oh no sorry that was the mexican dinner i had.

While while I loved your erudite tale, it initially fails to overcome incredulity in the extreme. I must agree with Tim W5FN and Rob W8MRL that my primary reaction was — should not this fable have been reserved for April 1st?

On further cogitation, I have heard rumors that parts of at least one of your protagonist’s antennas have been found protruding from the base of the western wall of Meteorite Crater at Winslow, Arizona. It is unknown at this time if the noble gas tube is among these components.

Another (probably specious) report implies that strange (initiallly identified as Anasazi) Hieroglyphs portending to describe the physical measurements of the antenna and the noble gas formula have been discovered on rock formations just outside the boundary of Area 51 in Nevada. The only Ham known to have seen them is a QRP hiker (W0AO, ex-W7KU, who recently had to have knee replacement surgery after encountering security guards in black coveralls who surrounded him on disembarking from six SUVs and three black helicopters, supported by one Humvee mounting quad 40mm AA guns). However, I am somewhat skeptical of this since the Radio Amateur who related this to me was still floating three feet AAT (Above Average Terrain) while recovering from his anesthesia.

By the way, there has been some recent buzz that the noble gas can be replaced by gaseous effluent escaping from certain landfills which have polluted the High Plains/Ogallala Aquifer near Great Bend, Kansas, and the Missouri River Alluvial Aquifer at Kansas City/Independence, Missouri. Unfortunately, this is completely unsubstantiated at the present time.

I CAN lay to rest any misapprehensions that THE ONE was in any way fortold by the writings of Nostradamus or the Mayan Calendar. I have this on the authority of K0RLT (now with Rockwell-Collins) who built the power supplies for Dr. Van Allen’s (Univ. of Iowa) experiments on Pioneer 10 and 11.

Do keep us informed of any further developments! I am anxious to sell my venerable SB-220 in order to buy the components so I can build THE ONE here at the earliest opportunity.

Here I was thinking it was January 28 but as Tim said it must be April 1.