[Boatanchors] Join Sunday Halli 20 Meter Net

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Please join us on Sunday January 8th for the HHI 20 meter Net. All flavors,

scents and brands are welcome. Provided they have the Orange Drops in them

that are not suitable for human consumption!

The time is from 12:30 - 2:00 PM EST/EDT or 1730 - 1900 UTC.

The frequency is still 14.293 MHZ USB +/- for those annoying Key Clicks,

Mike Splatter and babbling brook utterings drifting up from the bottom

feeders on 14.295! I think that guys beam is stuck on my precise Long./Lat.!

I hope to hear many of you tomorrow! Maybe KG4KZG, Dale, will stop wrenching

on his hot rod Jeep long enough to give his AL-1500 or the SB-220 some

overdue exercise! (Chuckle!)

When Radio Waves



By Duane B. Fischer, W8DBF



Has your Hallicrafters recently complained that it Hertz

when it takes a sudden dip? Have you heard microphonic vacuum

tube oscillations that were anything but angelic four part

harmony? Have you experienced an inexplicable desire to

put words to that soft steady ripple emulating from the power

transformer and hum along? Do you have an almost irresistible

desire to lick one of those geometrical out of round

crystalline covered granular Orange Drop candies with legs?

Do you experience an almost magnetic attraction to her that

fine tunes your capacitance to the point that you can no

longer resistor? Do you get all choked up if adjacent chatter

splatter drowns out that faint far away feminine voice your

auditory frequency lock was on and she slowly slips below the

threshold of the noise floor into the vacuum of that

solderless abyss of the solar cycle sewer. You push, he

pulls, and the sinking signal starts to surface as the RF

gains and the QRN wanes! Above the high Q tidal tug of the

moon upon the Ionospheric Ocean the signal ebbs and flows as

the AVC matches crest with trough. With fingers deft you trim

the antenna closer then your barber blends your sideburns

into those sunburned spots where ultraviolet rays left their

Coronal brand! Though the capacity for love is infinite, it

takes a variable capacitor with friction free precision

family bearings to separate good signals from disruptive QRM!

Some call it mode, some call it mood, but in either case, the

selected band is one of Gold energized for maximum flow by

love. The one factor of the ERP that no doctor has yet been

able to balance both sides of the infinity/entropy equation

equally with without discovering another lover existing in

yet another mother to be of a newborn parallel universe with

binary suns and trinary sons! Then just as you were finally

about to make Data contact with that ARRL sponsored satellite

orbiting the gigantic moon of Jupiter known as Ganymede, the

rectifier tube did a total melt down! Sometimes we weep with

joy, sometimes we weep for Joy and other times there is no

joy

just an overpowering impulse to flush everything that you own

that even remotely resembles a radio down the bathroom

toilet!



Original: Saturday January 7, 2012



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