[Hallicrafters] Celebrate Fall With Saturday HCI Net

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Yes, tis true, tis true. Summer is leaving us like that fickle high school girl
friend when the line backer on the football team showed up driving the shiny red
Corvette convertible his rich father bought him because he finally figured out
what the three colors on the traffic signal meant! Not that this 350 pound
freight train was as dense as Lead, but the frog we dissected in Biology had an
IQ two points higher than his! Welcome Fall with open arms and tune up those
antennas, especially if you reside where snow falls. The Winter DX season is
approaching, as are the after Christmas blues and bouts with depression for
having spent more than a piggy bank the size of a  Woolly Mammoth can hold.     
 	
	
Warm up those Hallicrafters that still go glow in the dark for the Saturday
September 21 HCI 40 meter Net. Grab that glass of iced tea and be there for the
pre-Net at 12:30 PM EDT, (1630 UTC). Just do not drop one of those cubes of
frozen H2O down your tank top, as it tends to make zero beating a frequency
difficult when you are distracted by the ice pond forming in your navel! Hang
with us until 1:00 PM EDT, (1700 UTC), for the officially start of the HCI 40
meter Net. 	
	
The frequency will be 7.280 Mhz lsb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and the
sound of a dial glass shattering scream as that melted ice cube trickles south
past the elastic waist band of those comfy old Fruit Of The Looms. This can
generally be discerned by a keen trained DX ear who can hear the unusual
phonetics being assigned to the call sign. 	
	
Join with us for some moments of lucidity, historical lore, fascinating facts,
restoration tips, insightful propagation comments, antenna theory discourses,
pleas for parts, items offered for sale and much more. One thing is for certain,
the fellowship is unsurpassed by this extraordinary collection of vintage radio
gear lovers who are more than willing to share their collective wisdom,
priceless experience and historical tidbits not found inany book anywhere. 	
	
I hope to hear many of you tomorrow, though the pugnacious perils of propagation
may attempt to impede proper forty meter signal bounce and double dribble the
waves into any place from Easter Island to Central Park in NYC. Gentlemen,start
your dynamotors and meet us tomorrow. 	
	
Duane Fischer, W8DBF	
NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International	
netcontrol at w9wze.org