[Boatanchors] All Subscribers: Please Read

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Hi All,

I was contacted by landline this morning by our very talented Web Master,
W5JT, Jim Thayer. Jim believes that it would be a wise move to train one,
possibly two or three, of you to act in his place, should the need arise, to
manage the Hallicrafters web site.

Jim wrote the beautiful HHI web site, for the most part. He knows it better
than anyone else. He is a gifted man with a multitude of talents, which
include being an excellent teacher. He can help interested parties
everything they will need to know about the hands on attention the HHI web
site will need.

As many of you already know, the HHI web site is darn near smart enough to
take care of itself, and the Web Master too! Which is to say, that it knows
enough to run and perform its daily operations without the need of human
intervention or assistance. At least 'for the most part'! Naturally
somethings do require the assistance of we humans! That is where 'you' come
in OM!

Frankly, all of us who have created, designed, maintained, contributed to
and so forth, are not getting any younger! Some of us have health issues,
others have family concerns that limit their free time greatly, some have
other concerns that limit their volunteer time in ways it did not five or
ten years ago. So Jim is right on the mark, as usual, by suggesting to me
that all of the Hallicrafters devotees volunteer to help in areas that they
either are already familiar with or willing to learn about. In short,
Hallicrafters needs YOUR help!

  (HHI - Halligan's Hallicrafters International), the official and legal
club name, is there for all of you to enjoy, benefit from, contribute your
wisdom and/or historical items or photos or articles to and for all who love
Hallicrafters, or vintage radio for that matter, to help in whatever ways
that your talents and time permit. Right now the web site needs your helping
hands and willing hearts!

Now I realize that many of you simply take the work of the silent minority
as a matter of course. The sun rises every morning and the Hallicrafters web
site is welcoming visitors with a cup of coffee in one hand and a throw away
razor in the other. But everything requires a food source in one form or
another to keep its transistors switching 'on' and 'off', the hard drive
turning at a precise and consistent revolution per minute etc. So please
help our Web Master keep the spam, viruses and creepy crawling web things
out of the web sites code and keep that "WELCOME" light lit for visitors to
our fantastic vintage web site repository of information for all things
Hallicrafters.

While I am on the subject: We could also use volunteers to assume and assist
with NCS duties for the Saturday 40 meter Net and the Sunday 20 meter Net.
And "if" we revive it, the Wednesday evening 20 or 40 meter Global Glow Net.
As most of you will recall, W8DBF came as close to being SK as one can get
and not be SK on December 27, 2009! I was not supposed to live. Recovery was
not even a topic of discussion. Through what I personally believe was a
miracle I did live and I did recover. Am I grateful? Beyond words! So let's
get some of you trained and ready to be NCS, when it is needed. Such as some
of you doing the Saturday 40 meter Net every other Saturday. Doing the
Sunday 20 meter Net several times a month. Taking over doing all the W9WZE
Special Events. Handling QSL card filling out and mailing. Perhaps
co-managing the various 'mailman.qth.net' lists that I administrate.

Please help us, so that we can continue to help you enjoy your love affair
with Hallicrafters and those other wonders that still go glow in the dark
without first having an infusion of Radium!

Contact our Web Master, W5JT, Jim, at: webmaster at w9wze.net

Contact me at: netcontrol at w9wze.net

Thank all of you so very much for your support, participation and
cooperation over the past fourteen years. Without you, the Hallicrafters
glow would be very faint, maybe just a feeble flicker. Fortunately, you have
kept her torch lit, the fingers of "VICTORY" held proudly high and made Bill
Halligan smile from his Ham Shack somewhere up yonder on a comfy cloud!

My personal heartfelt thanks to every one of you for helping me over the
years and sending me the hundreds of well wishes that helped me summon up
the will to rise again from the massive stroke that felled me. The
brotherhood/sisterhood of Ham Radio operators is the absolute best group of
human beings on the face of this third rock from the sun! I am proud to be a
part of this fraternity and equally proud to be able to contribute a little
back to a group that has so willingly given me so very much. Not just
brotherly love, but some good RST reports too!

Duane Fischer, W8DBF

Will you be the newest Web Master or Halli NCS?

Duane Fischer, W8DBF - WPE8CXO
E-Mail: dfischer at usol.com
Hallicrafters web site: www.w9wze.net
HHRP web site: hhrp.w9wze.net