[Boatanchors] Sunday HCI Groundhog Day Cookin

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

As always, all flavors of vintage gear is always welcome -   	
	
Tomorrow, Sunday February 2nd, is the appointed day that the Groundhog pokes his
head out of his condominium to see if he sees his shadow or not. Whether he does
or does not, is related by tried and true scientific principals to helping the
NOAA determine precisely when Spring will occur for that given year. You can
read all about this on the HCI web site at:	
http://www.w9wze.org/Frogzilla/FrogzillaFiles.php?PathNom=CurrentLinks/advent.txt


	
HCI is going to hold the regularly scheduled 20 meter Net just the same. Right
or wrong, because it is Groundhog Day, we plan to serve up some great
information on vintage Hallicrafters radio equipment plus an all you can eat
Groundhog barbecue special sandwich that will make your eyes and skin water. The
recipe came to us from none other than N6GJR in the state that boasts of being
able to barbecue everything from Black Angus beef to imported Chinese sandals
with soles made of the hide from the former family pet. Carl guarantees, nobody
can eat just one of these sandwiches! And live! The state? Where else but Texas,
the Lone Star state. Now being as Texas has to have everything bigger than every
other state, how come they only have one lonely star, heh?   	
Join me at 12:45 PM EST, (1745 UTC), when Carl will divulge the long kept secret
from the ATF, federal department of alcohol, tobacco and firearms, formerly run
by his mother-in-law, Annie 'I'll kick your Asp' Neckwringer. Recently cremated
in the family barbecue pit, Carl now feels safe in revealing this centuries old
marvelous formula for barbecue sauce that can tenderize a tombstone and put a
flame in the pit of your stomach that will remove external body hair! If that is
not enough to get you to tune in, check this out.	
	
The HCI Net proper will commence at 1:15 PM EST, (1815 UTC) with Carl
demonstrating how swallowing two tablespoons of cayenne pepper can expand the
human vocal range to work better with a D-104 desk mike on a Hallicrafters. It
will give you that full throaty sound, instead of that pinched shallow voice
that sounds like your Fruit Of The Looms shrunk four sizes since you keyed the
desk mike. Then he will read that long kept secret recipe for the Groundhog
double Decker burger on a cactus seed bun topped off with Mexican onions that
will give the sandwich a taste you will savor forever and breath that will kill
blood sucking Vampire Bats at a thousand yards! 	
	
The frequency will be 14.293 Mhz usb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and the
almost defening sound of tens of thousand of tiny little rodent feet running for
the safety of their underground bunkers as Carl tries to snare them with his
butterfly net and pressurized garden sprayer filled with MACE! His motto is,
First you roast them, then toast them on the HT-33b!	
	
There is a real secret to making these tougher than a bus station steak rodents
tender enough to chew without Titanium teeth. The only thing worse than pulling
your modern Mercury free fillings out with stringy tough rodent meat is missing
the HCI Net and learning how to make that Groundhog barbecue tender enough to
cut with a butcher's razor sharp meat cleaver.                	
	
I hope to hear many of you tomorrow. So bring a cathode or plate to pass, some
antacids for gas and enjoy the Hallicrafters facts, fun, fantasies and
fellowship.  	
	
Duane Fischer, W8DBF	
NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International   	
netcontrol@w9wze.org