Popular operating events, like zombies, never seem to die -- but what happens when one long-running popular operating event is, in fact, full of zombies? It's an event that rises from its eternal slumber for one day every year in the hopes that the bands may not be dead. Welcome to the Zombie Shuffle, which is marking its 28th year of bringing CW operators back to life by inviting them into the slow lane of QRS while operating QRP.

You will find the QRP Zombies in their usual HF haunts on the 24th of October - one a week before Halloween. They will be on the air from 1500 local time to local midnight anywhere in North and South American time zones. This is considered a contest, so no one stands a ghost of a chance grabbing a contact on 60, 30, 17 or 12.

By the way, the organizers want you to know that there's no point to this event except - as they say on their website - [quote] "to get on the air and have some goofy fun with fellow Zombies and QRPers." [endquote] In other words, this is just a little exorcise....er, exercise in radio fun.

To learn more or to register for your official Zombie number, visit the event website at the link in this week's newscast script at arnewsline.org

[DO NOT READ: https://www.zianet.com/qrp/ZOMBIE/pg.html ]

The zombies are coming. You could be one of them. Be not afraid.