[Boatanchors] Let Them Glow For HCI Saturday Net!

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Light those tubes up gentlemen and let's practice some bank shots with those
waves of wonder on Saturday February 25th. It is time for the HCI: Hallicrafters
Collectors International, 40 meter Net.	
	
The pre-Net will commence at 12:45 PM EST, (1745 UTC). The Net proper will begin
at 1:00 PM EST, (1800 UTC). 	
	
The frequency will be 7.280 MHZ lsb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and the
odd sound from 3 KHZ up the band of what sounds like a sump pump having serious
labor problems, as if trying to give birth to an entire sewage treatment plant!
What a racket! It reminds me a little of this peculiar noise I first heard in
1959 on a 1940 Zenith console while tuning across the short-wave bands. It
sounded to me then like somebody frying an egg with the heat turned up too high
as it was sputtering like a Parrot on stimulants who had a natural stutter and
was trying to speak faster than two teenage girls who think they are in love and
are comparing boy notes! I was informed by an amused older Ham, W8BAV, that it
was a form of high speed telegraphy used primarily by news services to send
photographs quickly. It was called facsimile. What Don did not mention was the
resolution was so low, the dots so far apart, that you could park a miniature
Poodle between them! 	
	
Whatever the source of this obnoxious dispersion of electrons is, somebody
should triangulate the source and go stick one of those old hat pins through it!
Can you say, "dead short"? Poof! Hi Ho Silver plated PL-259', it is the All
Alone Johnson Ranger on his trusty saw horse, Toronto! Or was that his dog? No
matter, the Johnson Ranger always gets his man, regardless of the DX.	
	
Sorry, sort of lost my train of thought there. Whatever this noise is we shall
prevail. So clean your trifocals with that stuff they babble about on television
that is supposed to remove everything from your dinner plates except the paint
with Lead in it, leaving no speckles, spots or smears, and then you can be sure
to get the old Hallicrafters, or other vacuum powered real radio, right on
frequency. Tighten them up guys, then that sound up yonder won't have you
gnashing your teeth causing a filling to fall out and forcing you to make
another payment to your dentist to help fund his retirement home in Casablanca!
Be there Saturday! Be counted! Keep them glowing gentlemen!	
	
Duane Fischer, W8DBF 	
NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International	
netcontrol at w9wze.org	
HCI web site: http://www.w9wze.org