[Boatanchors] Join Sunday HCI Net In Stereo

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

As always, all flavors of vintage gear are welcome -    	
	
Please join us on Sunday October 19th for the Hallicrafters Collectors
International 20 meter Net. Set your digital alarm clock to ring the ROM gong
and trip the photo electric cell that senses the  light emitted by the LED's
that form the numeric display, which causes a little relay to close activating
the tiny Rubidium LASER that burns a hole through the four ply water bed and
causes the water therein under immense pressure caused by your body mass to
squirt out striking a rotating muffin fan blade that sprays your face with the
chemically treated water causing ocular muscle spasms that jerk your eye lids
open like iron filings being sucked up by a magnet! Now that you are awake, you
might as well get out of bed and grab some waterproof glue and apply a
Johnson/Johnson Viking Band-Aid to stop the leak so you can make a porcelain
throne run before something else springs a leak!          	
	
This Net will feature some interesting historical facts and features on the
stereo equipment that Hallicrafters produced in the sixties, so bring along what
you know and any literature you happen to have, or can find, to read on air for
all of us to enjoy. Many Hallicrafters devotees are unaware that they produced
some home audio equipment, such as the RMX-2000. 	
	
The pre-Net will commence at 12:30 PM EDT, (1630 UTC). Yes, that is indeed
fifteen minutes earlier than normal. Why? Because my bladder is on a biological
timer and I have to build in unannounced sneak away from the mike breaks to give
the water treatment plant liquid to process so the ten thousand dollar apiece
seals don't dry out and my property tax goes up again!   	
	
The Net proper will begin promptly at 1:15 PM EDT, (1715 UTC), with or without
my 'real' presence. Thank goodness for that digital voice recorder and my
wireless remote that I can trigger it with from the room of thrones where I rule
my kingdom from. 	
	
The frequency will be 14.293 Mhz usb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and the
sound of heavy artillery blasting aliens from the sky. Actually some poor dumb
ducks headed south being blown into featureless chunks of fertilizer by crazed
hunters hiding in their bunker using military surplus bazookas to bag a bird
with! It takes six dead ducks to have enough meat to make one shishkebab! But
those plunderers of the animal kingdom are in for a foul surprise when they
ingest their prize game, because these fragmented chunks of fowl contain more
toxins than the cheerleader who dated the entire high school football team!
These lame sports depraved butchers will be curled up in a fetal position passed
out cold from the sleeping gas that burned a hole through their boxer shorts and
jeans like a red hot cigarette ash doing a surprise crotch drop! When they
regain consciousness, every time they burp the fumes will arouse the mating
instinct in male Crows within a five mile square area who will transform the
hair on their heads into a condo nest with indoor plumbing!  	
	
So find us some info on the home audio equipment that Hallicrafters built, not
counting the Lowrey Organ, and join us for some facts, fibs, fellowship and
friendship that bonds those who still love things that go glow in the dark
together. 	
	
Warning: Tuesday October 21st marks the 39th anniversary of me being shot and
totally blinded during Pheasant hunting season the eve of my eighteenth
birthday. Wednesday October 22nd is my fifty-seventh birthday and I am taking
the day off! I may, or may not, show up for the HCI Global Glow that evening.
Carry on - 	
	
1. You may be ham if you think erecting a vertical is a sexual position!  	
	
2. You may be a Ham if you think a dummy load is a pickup truck full of
relatives!	
	
3. You may be a Ham if you wonder how a horse named Black Beauty got soldered
into your radio! 	
	
4. You may be a Ham if you think horizontal polarity is sleeping on the floor
with a fence post for a pillow! 	
	
5. You may be a Ham if you turn down the pitch control when your XYL complains
about you parting out her electric broom!    	
	
6. You may be a Ham if you won't let your teenage daughter date any male who
can't spell 'resist-her'! 	
	
7. You may be married to a Ham if you ask him to change a burned out bulb and he
tries to stick VOM probes in your mouth! 	
	
8. You may be married to a Ham if you rent the movie 'Short Circuit' and he
thinks it is an electronics video!    	
	
9. You may be dating a Ham if he takes you shopping for an engagement ring at
Radio Shack! 			
	
10. You may be a Ham if your wife sends you to the store to get some ground
steak and you come back with your arms full of eight foot copper pipes!      	
	
Duane Fischer, W8DBF	
NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International