[Boatanchors] Thanks To HCI Web Master

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Even though it is the Hallicrafters Collectors International web site, many
other vintage items appear there as well. If you have a contribution to make,
please send it to:	
	
webmaster@w9wze.org      	
	
I would like to personally thank my dear friend Fred Mooney, KA1DGL, for his
hard work over the years with Net relaying and more recently the duties of the
HCI Web Master. Fred is a terrific person, a great contributor behind the scenes
and the man who makes the HCI web site truly great. 	
	
When the necessity of a Hallicrafters oriented web site befell the group several
years ago, Al Waller, K3TKJ contacted me and offered to provide me with whatever
I needed to make a new web site possible. Al knew that I was handling the HCI
Nets and was the trustee for the W9WZE call, officially known as Halligan's
Hallicrafters. A club call I was so generously given the opportunity to become
the trustee of by W6GL, John Zitzelberger. A honor I greatly appreciated then,
and now. It is rather a humbling experience to hold the cal of somebody who
affected, and touched, the lives of so many people, as William Halligan, Sr.
did. Not just those of us in Amateur Radio or short-wave listening, but also
those who served our nation during the war time military activities since 1940. 
   	
	
I had no experience with managing a web site, even though I had over twenty
years experience with computers ranging in experience from programing to helping
with the development of 'Text To Speech' (TTS) software by Texas Instruments
Inc. back in 1981. KA1DGL, Fred Mooney, stepped forward and offered his skills
to be the HCI web master. Skills that turned out to be quite considerable, as
Fred is a gifted person when it comes to code manipulation and web site design. 
He and I conversed at length about what we wanted the goals of the HCI web site
to be, how we wanted to implement them, future site areas to develop and
activate as time progressed and much more. We thought about it very carefully
and with an eye toward the future. It is much easier to do it right from the
outset, then have to go back and rip something apart and rebuild. We wanted to
keep the web site fresh, updated, current and to prevent stagnation at all
costs. Stagnation being the reason so many web sites are visited once and
forgotten about. No reason to go back. This we did not want.  	
	
Fred has worked with me and together we have tried to put together a wealth of
information that covers a wide variety of topics to make available information
that was interesting, helpful and useful. Fred did an incredible job of putting
the web site together with a plethora of features, some obvious and some not,
that make it one of the nicest web sites out there. Not my opinion, but that of
hundreds of you who have openly said so in writing and on the air. While much of
the creativity was mine, the design and structure work goes to Fred. He deserves
a tremendous amount of credit for his tireless efforts and low profile. He is
not an ego or glory hound. He knows his job, does it and is gratified when he
has a finished product that works and he can be proud of. Nonetheless, all of
you need to express your thanks to him for what he has given the vintage radio
community. It would not be there, without his talents and continued efforts.
Tell him 'thank you', he has more than earned it. 	
	
Duane Fischer, W8DBF