[Boatanchors] Join Sunday HCI 20 Meter Net

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

All vintage gear of all flavors is always welcome - Come early, stay late.   	
	
Please join me on Sunday October 6th for the Hallicrafters Collectors
International 20 meter Net.  We had a nice group on Saturday with some lively
discussions on a variety of topics. Check in number 5000 could happen Sunday,
propagation permitting.  	
	
The pre-Net will commence at 12:45 PM EDT, (1645 UTC). I will be on the air at
12:30 PM EDT, (1630 UTC), tuning up the equipment with my trusty rubber mallet.
In sophisticated engineering circles of superior operational procedures, this is
called the 'Thump Test'. If it does not power up, or operate within expected
parameters, you gently, but firmly, thump it with the rubber mallet. If this
fails, you then move to the part of the thump test where the unit is tossed onto
the floor making a very loud THUMP and quickly love the back up boat anchor into
the operating position. 	
	
The Net proper will begin at 1:15 PM EDT, (1715 UTC) with Frogzilla himself
putting in a rare on air appearance and doing a quick series of impersonations
of six different Frog vocal patterns each translating to 
"CQ CQ. My favorite bug is a Fly!" The frequency will be 14.293 Mhz usb +/- for
key clicks, mike splatter and the usual 5 Khz frequency dispersion of excessive
compression and modulation in excess of 100% by those on 14.295 trying to
communicate with the dearly departed. No not SK, just truckers with eighteen
wheels and more than the legal limit of both freight hauling weight and legal
limit amplifiers. (snicker) Then they tell me I am splattering running that old
junk tube gear that belongs in a trash dumpster. Yea, right! I wonder how long
after I dropped it in one before one of them rescued it and put it up for sale
on the Bay Of E! 		
My favorite was the guy who told me my station was taking out half of the twenty
meter band. I could not resist saying, "Only half? Yep, there must be something
wrong as I normally take out much more than that!" But just to be sure, I did
check everything to be sure I was not truly causing a problem due to
malfunctioning equipment or operator stupidity.    
	
Please join us Sunday for some fun, facts, historical Halli trivia, items for
sale, assistance with a technical issue, brag time for new vintage gear
acquisitions, demonstrations of your latest restoration project and more. I hope
to hear many of you on Sunday, so be there or be the square root in an equation
comparing the intelligence quotient of the station operator with that of a dummy
load.            	
	
Duane Fischer, W8DBF	
NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International   	
netcontrol@w9wze.org