Current Propagation and Old time SciFi

[KB3DKS]

  Listening to the gray line propagation this evening as it went west in a real short time with several QSOs literaly mixing together and the nearby ops fading out reminded me of an old SciFi short story that I wonder if any of you remember.
  I read a lot of SciFi in the 60's, should have been reading school books, but this story stayed with me. Only now can't remember the title or author.
  It's radio relevant and went like this,

 People started receiving old morse code messages on their receivers then awhile later the first AM broadcasts started to show up, this kept on progressing forward in time untill TV started showing up and before too long the transmissions were only a year or so old. Scientists or someone discovered that the solar system was approaching the edge of the universe and we had been receiving the reflections of the past transmissions reflecting off of this. The story ended with just days to go before reaching that point.

 Does anyone remember reading this story?
I was an avid SWL at the time and it impacted me greatly.
 The radio set used early on in the movie "Day of the Triffids" was also an influence for my later becoming a Amateur Radio Op.

Thanks and a Merry, Happy, Christmas to all !!

Bill, KB3DKS in 1 Land

[KA8WTK]

Oh my.
  I remember the " Day of the Triffids", but can't remember the story you're talking about. I hope some one can come up with the name. (Too much Christmas cheer!) Was it a "Twilight Zone"?

Bill KA8WTK

[KB3DKS]

Oh my.
  I remember the " Day of the Triffids", but can't remember the story you're talking about. I hope some one can come up with the name. (Too much Christmas cheer!) Was it a "Twilight Zone"?

Bill KA8WTK

  The short story wasn't on TV although we did have a great late Saturday night show called Double Chiller Theater on a Phila. cable station, mostly old B&W SciFi.
Bill KB3DKS

[WB2EMS]

I also spent most of the 60's reading Science Fiction (used up my school library's supply, then the town library, and very nearly the nearby city library in Rochester). 

That sounds vaguely familiar. Maybe one of the James Blish (Bliss?) stories about domed cities lifted en masse by "spindizzies". I think one of them dealt with the edge of the universe, and another with the universe contracting back to a point.

I only saw part of day of the triffids once on late night tv.

[W2JTD]

Handy information to have in your back pocket:
Triffids are plant-based and their vital functions rely on distributed systems instead of distinct internal organs. This makes them difficult to kill using firearms and allows them to absorb considerable blunt force damage to their body section without being impaired. Triffids are also capable of limited bodily regeneration, and can regrow their sting if it is damaged or destroyed.

The most effective way to stop or disable a triffid is to sever its trunk or otherwise destroy its head. This will render it unable to locate prey, or to attack with its stinger.

Triffids can be destroyed using salt water. A triffid doused in salt water dissolved in under a minute, leaving only an organic residue behind.

Like all plant life, triffids are vulnerable to fire. Once a triffid is set ablaze, it is unable to put the fire out itself. However, it may take several minutes for a triffid to succumb, during which time the triffid still presents a threat to those around it.

[KB2WIG]

Thanks, I've always used Roundup, but, it takes a long time to kill.


Gardening Tips by John Begeman
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Arizona

After applying Roundup, give it time to work! Because it is a systemic it must be absorbed by the leaves and moved down within the plant to it's roots. All this takes time, usually about 7 to 10 days. Plants will begin to yellow up and then die. Do not pull or hoe the weeds out until they are completely dead. If weeds are emoved before the chemical can move into the roots, they will just regrow.


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