Nothing Heard: Radio Net in the State of Tranquility

27 03 2012
Tranquility etc etc

Here is the verbatim transcript from this morning's radio net here at tranquility base.  It begins at 1000 sharp and keeps us all fully informed of the days events.  Everything in quotation marks has been broadcast as I type:


"BEEEEEEEEEEP"  (some idiot turns on his radio to receive the net.  His radio activates his AIS sender causing every AIS receiver in the marina to shriek out out a warning.  He does this every morning about 0920)


"Click.  Click.  Click.  HSSSSSSSST"  (a second idiot keys his mike to tune the radio, a procedure not needed since WWII which is probably the last time this gopher used a radio)


"Jeannie of London?  Jeannie of London?  This is Wendy on Margaret Alice."


...


(slightly more forcefully:) "George on Jeannie of London come in please!!"


"Nothing Heard"


"Good Morning, this is Wendy on Margaret Alice.  I will be your net coordinator for this morning.  First the radio check.  Could listeners call in now please?"


...


"Nothing Heard"


"Now for  Emergency and Priority Traffic   Is there any Emergency or Priority Traffic?  Come in now please"


...


"Nothing Heard."


"Next we have new arrivals.  Has anyone arrived at Almermar recently or is anyone departing?"


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"Nothing heard"


"Moving on to Local Knowledge.  Does anyone require local knowledge?"


...


"Nothing Heard"


"And now for rides and lifts.  Does anyone require a lift or can anyone offer a lift to someone who needs it?"


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"Nothing Heard"


"Moving on to parts exchange.  Does anyone have anything they wish to sell or wish to borrow?"


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"Nothing Heard"


"Does anyone have anything else, any jokes or comments for the communtiy?"


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"nothing heard"


"I am returning to England tomorrow so we need a new net coordinator for a couple of weeks.  Can anyone assume the duties in my absence?"


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"Nothing Heard"


"Really our need is quite desperate.  George on Jeannie of London seems to have left and I will be gone.  Can anyone moderate this net in my absence?"


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"Tomorrow your net coordinator will be Paula aboard the yacht Calypso"




Update on 28 03 2012:


This morning Paula did not moderate.  She handed the duties off to Maria for whom she had assumed responsibility for the Wednesday net.  Maria returned from Belgium yesterday.


Maria slept in or something.  Wendy from Margaret Alice stepped up and announced that she would not moderate this morning.  


The net then settled back to equilibrium:


Nothing Heard.