MDARC Weekly Nets 

It’s 9:30 on Sunday morning, raining outside, and the coffee is ready. I make my way to the shack, pull my robe up around my neck, grab the push to LOOK button, and say, "Good morning who’s on board?" Look, there is Jerry in San Leandro with coffee in hand! "Nice night shirt," I say; "Who else is here this morning?" Dave in Oakley, in his brown robe and baseball hat, and Mister Dave in the Pittsburg, what on earth does he have on? (Like I say if you’re not watching ATV you’re just not getting the picture!) Bill up in Sloughhouse is already up and dressed—he’s an early riser, and Matthew is there in his Cat in the hat PJs. Oh well, just another Sunday morning BATHROBE NET.

We all sit around and plan our days, talk about this and that, poke fun at everybody’s morning hair. "Does mine always looks like this?" I ask, and on it goes for about 30 minutes. What a great way to start your day! Coffee with your friends, great conversation, and no need to go out in the rain. Yep, ATV is a great mode. We are not much good at emergency communications or long distance DX, but we sure have a good time doing what we do!

You never know what you might see on ATV—or who, for that matter. We have some pretty innovative people on the air. I have seen a bird’s eye view out of an airplane and the same view out of a model airplane. We have guys doing mobile ATV, pedestrian ATV, and some have cameras on their towers. One guy even has a camera on the jogging path in Walnut Creek. Tonight I watched the moon go down over the bay courtesy of K3ZJJ high in the Oakland hills.