[Boatanchors] Special Pearl Harbor HCI 20 Meter Net

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

As always, all flavors and cents of vintage gear are welcome - (if it's modern,
just don't confess!)     	
	
Please join with us on Sunday December 7th for the Hallicrafters Collectors
International 20 meter Net. We will be devoting this Net in remembrance of those
Americans who lost their lives at Pearl Harbor on Sunday December 7, 1941.
Although it was sixty-two years ago, we must never forget the price of freedom
and never forget all those Americans past, and present, who fought, and are now
fighting, to preserve and protect the freedoms too many of us take as granted.
Freedom is NOT free! It is very hard to get, but so very easy to lose! If you
were in WW2, or know somebody who was, please share with us a story about
freedom rising above the ravages of war and the Stars And Stripes waving in the
breeze of victory over adversity and human suppression.           	
	
The pre-Net will commence at 12:45 PM EST, (1745 UTC). The Net proper will begin
at 1:15 PM EST, (1815 UTC). The frequency will be 14.293 Mhz usb +/- for key
clicks, mike splatter and the sound of nameless footprints marching on distant
beaches as Hallicrafters helped the voice of freedom sing out loud and clear
from shore to distant shore.  

The primary United States armed forces worldwide communications station used the
call letters of WAR and was in Maryland. The receivers were Hammarlund Super
Pro, three per monitoring station, using space diversity with rhombic antennas.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt refused to travel by air, if I recall correctly,
he did it only once, that was to an overseas conference in 1945 shortly before
he died. He had a special presidential train that had one car carrying the
communications equipment, a Hallicrafters BC-610 and receivers. Was there a
second car that carried the special generators to power this equipment? Many
Hallicrafters BC-610 AM transmitters and SX-28 receivers were positioned
throughout the world to communicate with the Maryland WAR station. Please join
us as we remember all of our family, friends and strangers who were in Hawaii
that fateful Sunday morning when our newly developed RADAR warned us of an
impending disaster, but the cries of a Japanese air attack coming were dismissed
by doubting commanders and the rest is history.  		
	
While it is a very somber day, it is also a very great day. A day when America
rose up like a Phoenix from the flaming ashes of a catastrophic naval disaster
that crippled our Pacific fleet and reached deep within its patriotic soul and
summoned the determination and faith to fight those who would destroy freedom
and enslave us in their chains of oppression and slavery. We must NEVER forget,
lest we drop our guard, become complacent and another vicious doer of evil sets
another Destroyer ablaze to sink to the depths of the ocean entombing the men
aboard her forever or terrorists tumble more twin towers while the Statue Of
Liberty watches in silent shock.       	
	
Remember Pearl Harbor. Remember freedom only rings when someone is brave enough
to risk their life to ring the bell. Remember we are free today because of our
brothers and sisters who valiantly fought, and many died, to secure our right to
say "God bless America" Let us all remember them on this December 7th and strive
to truly make this "The Land Of The Free And The Home Of The Brave".         	
	
Light up the Hallicrafters that still go glow in the dawns early light and let's
keep them glowing, forever!  	
	
Duane Fischer, W8DBF/W9WZE  	
NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International