[Boatanchors] Join Halli Sunday Net For Fun And Facts!

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Please check your closets, attics and garage shelves for things that go glow
in the dark. It just might be a piece of vintage vacuum tube radio gear!
Then again, it might be a family member in hiding after ingesting some
trinket they got in the late fifties through late sixties after sending in
five Mr. Beernut wrappers and two .90% Silver Washington quarters! My
neighbor had a pet Cat that ate five of those plastic Astrological sign
things that girls hung around their necks on an eighteen inch long Silverr
chain that glowed after you exposed them to a bright light for a few
minutes. After lying outside sunning itself for hours daily that Cat could
be seen after glowing like that Cheshire Cat with only the smile that showed
in the Alice In Wanderland tale!

Please take a few hours out of snowblowing or snow plowing, if in the
northern latitudes, or lying on a blanket sunning yourself on a southern or
tropical beach, if in the southern latitudes, and join us on Sunday February
10th for the HHI (Halligan's Hallicrafters International) 20 meter Net.

If you have a Hallicrafters RX or TX or both, great! If you have another
vintage vacuum tube wonder by a different manufacturer, that is still great!
Just do not confess to all of us when you check in that you have sinned,
plead for forgiveness and then go on to tell us you are running an Icom
model 7800 or other solid state rig! Just fake a little hum, bump the VFO
now and then to simulate a frequency drift issue and we will never know you
are running other then vintage vacuum tube gear! As long as you have an
interest in vintage Ham radios, test gear, audio equipment etc. that is good
enough! So join us!

The Pre-Net commences at 12:45 PM EST, (1745 UTC). The Net proper starts at
1:15 PM EST, (1815 UTC). The frequency will be 14.293 MHZ usb +/- for key
clicks, mike splatter and moans and groans from the feared creaky desk
operating position syndrome.

Since the propagation tends to oscillate and abruptly change from short skip
to way the heck and gone long skip without so much as a warning, if you hear
nothing, do not panic, hang ten, and the band will suddenly explode with
voices, QRM, QRN, tune up carriers, static, atmospheric hash etc. All the
sounds that you are accustomed to that make you feel confident that your
station's equipment is functioning perfectly. So keep calling and if I do
not hear you with one of my three antenna arrays, then one of the relay
stations should hear your cries and pick you up. We are there! Somewhere!

Oh yes, that aforementioned creaky desk operating position syndrome.
Generally caused by Hams standing atop the already overloaded ancient six
foot wooden desk trying to reach an antenna switch conveniently located
underneath either a ten inch stack of log sheets you just never got around
to put in a binder or a Johnson Thunderbolt paperweight! It has also been
known to be caused by adding one too many pieces of great deals you could
not pass up at a Ham Fest and found some wonderous way to mount it or stack
it or pile it on the desk or things already on said desk, when it appeared
impossible to fit anything else there. The fear is from the knowledge that
those creaking sounds, those painful moans, those labored groans are warning
sounds of an impending collapse of your Ham Shack Jack! Generally right on
top of you just at the very moment in time when you make contact through a
pileup tail high on an Elephant on stilts with a rare DX station you have
had fantasies of working for a quarter of a century! At least your final QSO
ends with style, much better then being buried in transistors, computer
chips and a high speed connection getting wrapped around your neck!

So please join us tomorrow for some fun, facts, fellowship, fibs about Ham
Fest deals you almost got and who knows what else. One thing is for sure.
You will have a great time with some of the most fantastic Hams ever to pass
a license exam! Maybe my friend Mr. Parts, AKA WZ1M Gary Brown will show up
with some new parts offerings. If you need a transformer wound, he is your
man!

Hope to hear you tomorrow!

Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
dfischer at usol.com

HHI: Halligan's Hallicrafters International
http://www.w9wze.net

HHRP: Historic Halligan Radio Project
hhrp.w9wze.net