[Boatanchors] RE: Sunday HCI 20 Meter Net Live

[Michael Tauson]

> > From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>

> If you have wondered as you wandered through the
> channels of electronic surf on your high resolution
> video board what the weather would be and whether

80x24 ... I love this upgrade!

> there would be weather worth watching on the Weather
> Channel, 

At least you HAVE exciting weather.  Hawaii is boring
- one forecast for the entire week ... and that one
reads, "Refer to last week's forecast."  We have all
of three seasons - dry, hurricane and monsoon.  And
the latter two have been very disappointing of late.

> probably know that it is downright COLD here in the
> Winter Water Wonderland state of Michigan. 

It is here too.  I mean the water temp is all the way
down to 72, and the overnight lows sometimes drop into
the 60s.  *BRRR*

> Just how cold is it in Michigan? Well my friends of
> those warm and wonderful wonders that still iminate
> a ghostly glow 

I thought they cleaned up Three Mile Island.

> it ain't over till its over! Who said that anyhow?
> Was it Tug Boat Annie or that NY Mets guy Tug McGraw
> or the Yankees catcher Yogi The Bear? 

What about the fat lady?  Doesn't she have to sing?  

> Have faith my friends! For the golden glow of joy
from those vintage vacuum tubes will chase away that
suffocating smog laden, acid rain erroded and Ozone
deprived atmospheric blight with one RF 'wave' from
its
magical wand of propagation ledgerdomain with those
sixth dimensional eminations of wizardry.

I'm frightened now.  I followed that.

> So please join me on Sunday February 19th for the
> Hallicrafters Collectors International 20 meter Net
> where we will catch a radio wave and by using the
> famous Halli DDDD1, AKA Dual Diversity Double
> Dribbler, to bounce the signal from state to state,
> cuntry to country and hopefully tube to output
> transformer to ear. This kind of double dribble is
> not a foul, so scribble W8DBF in your call book and
> be there!

I hope this is open to those who can afford to include
both sidebands and a carrier, rather than those poor
buzzards who can only afford a rig capable of only one
sideband and no carrier at all.  I'm still working on
getting on the air (GRC-9 with an LV-80 on the back of
the Jeep somewhere with whatever antenna I can put up
at the time) but it sounds like it could be fun.  

> "Hickery Dickery Doc, Who
> Hid The Damn Key To The Clock!" Did you ever notice

"Hickery Dickery Doc, Who hid the key to the damn
clock" scans better.  Just thought I'd mention it. <G>

> the strange titles, and even more peculiar themes,
to some of those children's nursery rhymes our British
buddies penned with their charcoal sticks?

The Celtic quarter of my ancestry has it that the
English were and are a rather peculiar people.  Of
course, part of that could be blamed on the
Scandinavian quarter.

> yet, unless maybe old Stone Hinge was really an
> alien peep show 

Darn, you discovered the secret!

> I got frost bite on my time check fingers and had to
> key the desk mike using my elbow. Try that with a
> D-104!

Lock and vox!

> The frequency will be 14.293 MHZ usb +/- for key
clicks, mike splatter and the "Hey! Where did that 
come from?" racket 

Oh, darn.  You're on 20.  I won't have the SEG-15 for
a while (I know, it's go those nasty semiconductors in
it) but it's a cheap set that can only afford one
sideband at a time sans carrier, and I don't have
plans (yet) for anything Jeepable that can hit there
that's a proper rig - ie, bearing warm glowy things
inside.  I suppose I could put a GRC-19 back there;
would that count?

> that sounds like that old "Woodpecker". Remember
him? What was that anyhow, low frequency military
horizon RADAR? 

Supposedly.  The conspiracy theorists had it that it
was some sort of mind control thingie.  Some had it
that it was actually alien in origin - as in UFOs.  Of
course, to them everything was alien in origin
including the transistor.  Come to think of it, I
might agree with that part.

> K7DDG to drink Coke instead of Pepsi! (It would not
have killed you Roger, in fact, it might have stopped
that shedding problem you have with the hair falling
off your head 

True, so far as you said.  But you failed to mention
that it also would have caused his teeth to grow hair.

> from our Vodka sipping brothers.

Whoa!  Okay, the other half of my ancestry is Eastern
European, part of which is Russian, and the
combination of which makes for a number of skirmishes,
border incidents and all out wars.  Nothing like being
a walking UN to make life interesting.

Anyway, they did not *SIP* vodka.  Still don't.  One
swig, one bottle.  That's the rule.  "Sip", my great
aunt Fanny ... whose antics are subject for another
time.

> of RADAR, whatever became of that VLF underwater
signal system that was being installed in the Upper
Peninsula of Michigan?

It's still there frying the locals' assorted
anatomical parts.  About 3 miles from me is the
Lualualei Navy transmitter site with its two 1500'
towers (Darn, I'd love to have that farm!) and 23 KHz
(or there abouts) transmitter to do the same thing
locally.  I mean fry anatomical parts.

> Speaking of radios and computers: Did you know that
it was William J. Halligan, Sr. who named Radio Shack?
That is what he named the radio store he opened in
south Boston, MA 

Before I moved here from PA, I had several ads from
that store from 1947 or so.  The closest I got was
Radio Row which was quite enough to keep me happy.

> Yuck! Remember when somebody got the bright idea
back in the seventies to flavor the glue so the stamps
did not taste bad, but actually pleasant? 

Oh.  It was supposed to be pleasant?  I thought it was
just another means of torturing the citizenry into
appreciating the normal everyday glue.  Now they have
the "sticks to everything except the envelope" sticky
back ones that are just as entertaining but in a
different way.

I'm trying to remember anything in the way of a proper
rig that can get up to 20m that's surplus and is
supposed to be Jeeped around.  Aside from the GRC-19,
that is.  My usual mode is CW (I've never had a ham
rig with a mic attached!) so I hope you don't mind
that minor detail.  Hopefully something a lot lighter
since I have to hump it up the steps to the apartment
between outings.  

Best regards,

Michael, K3MXO ... on the shores of sunny Hawaii


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