[Hallicrafters] Join Sunday HCI 20 Meter Net While You Can

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Please join us on Sunday November 30th for the Hallicrafters Collectors
International 20 meter Net. The pre-Net will commence at 12:45 PM EST, (1745
UTC). The Net proper will begin at 1:15 PM EST, (1815 UTC). I will be on the air
at/about 12:15 PM EST, (1715 UTC) testing the equipment and chatting with
whomever happens to drift on by.  	
	
The frequency will be 14.293 Mhz usb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and the
sizzling sputtering sound of a charcoal grill just outside the Ham Shack window
driving the icy chills of Winter away as it cremates a soccer ball size wasp
nest chopped down by a neighbor I fed a six pack of Bud Light to before daring
him to hack the nest off with a mil surplus machete. Just a darn shame he lost
his balance while standing on the top of the six foot step ladder in my front
yard and not only whacked that huge wasp motel down with one swift powerful
stroke through the frigid air, but also the end of his nose and three toes on
his left foot! Yes fans of those things that still go glow in the dark, there is
more than one way to get rid of those unwanted hums!    				
	
Now I don't want to imply that this particular neighbor was born in the slow
lane, but let's just say that smoke does not go all the way up his chimney! He
insisted on counting how many wasps were housed in the huge nest before he
doused it with charcoal briquette ignitor fluid and tossed in a lit match. I
tried to tell him that they were just in a state of being dormant due to the
cold and not dead. He bent low over the nest and put an ear down by it to hear
if any of them were snoring. The alcohol on his breath must have worked as a
wake up call to the wasps, as four of them instantly woke up, kicked off into
the air, wobbled like a Cesna with a broken wing and half of the prop missing,
dove into his ear canal like it was the airport hanger and unloaded their cargo!
His eyes got as big as fine china dinner plates and he took off through my yard
like he had just seen his wife at 5:00 AM naked with her hair full of curlers,
face covered in cold wrinkle removing cream, false teeth in one hand and a
teflon coated rolling pin in the other! The last time I saw him move that fast
was when we were at the county park for the pumpkin roll at Halloween and he
drank a quart of fresh apple cider! According to one newspaper reporter, he
trampled five people standing in line to use the porta-john as he raced through
them, dashed inside and threw the guy sitting there with his Wranglers around
his ankles reading anold Sears and Roebuck catalog out the door onto the
decaying leaves and screamed something about Moctazuma's Revenge!        	
	
Please join us tomorrow for some vintage facts, fun, fellowship and a sharing of
collective wisdom. I hope to hear you, so be there and bring a tale to tell and
a tube to pass, may that tale be true and that tube full of gas! A diode to
detect and a coil to wind, and that list of parts you hope to find!   	
	
Duane Fischer, W8DBF	
NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International