[Boatanchors] HCI Sunday 20 Meter Net Features Horizontal Hustler 4BTV!

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Yo Humans!

Please join us on Sunday February 26th for the Hallicrafters Collectors
International 20 meter Net. If you have something more important, more
pressing, more interesting or ... You are simply deluded! But that is OK, as
we all have our hangups, may yours be drip dry! What could possibly be more
important, or enjoyable, than 2.5 hours of hot air from those wonders that
still glow in the dark without the aid of Radium from your childhood? Isn't
that stuff supposed to cause our body hair to fall out by age thirty, cause
our bones to shrink and turn us into a Dwarf by age forty? Cause our skin to
shrivel up like an over dried prune and our body to have more wrinkles than
an unironed cotton shirt your teenage son, or grandson, hung up in the
dresser drawer by wadding it up and shoving it in underneath the Levis he
stores with one leg dangling out of the drawer for easy location? Yet
despite all of these predictions of certain doom and "buy life insurance now
before nobody will take you with a birth certificate having a footprint that
glows in the dark!", we are still here, taking names and kicking butts when
needed! Now the government is wondering what to do with a zillion so called
Baby Boomers who are ready to retire and draw their SSA benefits and
pensions. The problem is, Congress has been borrowing money from the SSA and
Medicare trusts for decades to "balance the budget", never paid back so much
as one copper 4.11 gram Lincoln! Now they did pay interest on the loan, make
that loans, but decades of plundering the piggy bank has left old Porky on
the slim side! In fact, if Porky turns sideways and sticks out his tongue he
looks like a zipper!

Join us for the HCI 20 meter Net today and let's chew this over on our
Hallicrafters, or other vintage radios that not only glow in the dark, but
keep our mug of coffee warm, our feet warm (Northerners - take off your
shoes before putting your tootsies on the HT-41 and Southerners who only
wear shoes on Sunday to church - wash those little piggies!) and works like
a camp cook stove if you use an Aluminum pie plate to fry up the bacon and
eggs in! You can't do that with one of those modern rice burner things! Then
again, you don't get a double hernia from lifting them to dust under either!
Anyhow, just show up at 12:45 PM EST, (1745 UTC) for the pre-Net. Then
refill the mug, drain the old lizard and settle in for another 105 minutes
of fun, facts, fix it up tips from the pro's who knows, some flea market
financial fibs, a funny tale or six, fascinating bits of history not
recorded in any book yet, but told by guys who were there when Marconi made
that first transmission, fantastic rigs for sale at prices not even a Taurus
with a Titanium will can resist, pleas for parts that make you just want to
box them up and send them "Free Matter For The Blind" and more. I guarantee
that you will learn something during the Sunday HCI 20 meter Net! Now what
is another issue!

The Net proper will start at 1:15 PM EST, (1815 UTC).

The frequency will be 14.292 MHZ usb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and
the friendly chattering Chipmunks. (NCS to Tom Dailey, W0EAJ are you paying
attention son? I did not post it as 14.293 and confuse you this time! Please
send cash.) If you have ever heard the infamous "Chipmunks" by their
compatriot David Seville, then you know what to expect! Alvin has got the
paddle to the metal, as usual, he does this to amuse himself by watching
Theodore and Rufus eyes cross and their ears twitch everytime he sends 'CQ'
using the HA-1 keyer with his SR-150. Now what you may think is Senor Static
clearing his throat before singing the sunspot seranade, is actually the
Chipmunks trying to hit 'middle C' at the same time! That really shrill
sound like a female with four inch fingernails scraping them across a
chalkboard is David Seville doing what he does best, yelling at the
Chipmunks, generally Alvin, in screach mode to stop doing that to his
brothers! Ever hear splatter in three part harmony? Listen Sunday!

Oh by the way, the third Chipmunk's name is not Rufus. The first one to post
his name on the list, and be correct, will receive paper currency with a
face value of $1,000 courtesy of the government of Belarus.

I hope to hear many of you tomorrow, rather, later today! Be there and keep
me company, a guy can only take so much three part harmony before he goes
ballistic and grills Chipmunks!

Duane Fischer, W8DBF
NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International
netcontrol at w9wze.org
HCI web site: http://www.w9wze.org