[Hallicrafters] Join Sunday HCI 20 Meter Net And Vote

[Duane B. Fischer, W8DBF]

Please join us On Sunday February 20th for the Hallicrafters Collectors
International 20 meter Net. I have a question I would like you to have a voice
in concerning the decision. We are also going to be keeping a Net record of any
vintage rig used by those who check in from now on and it will appear in the
weekly net report. Those who are curious what other Hallicrafters fans, or other
vintage rig owners, are using, can consult the Net report to find out.	
	
The pre-Net will commence at 12:45 PM EST, (1745 UTC). For those with hot solder
in their shorts, I will be on the air putting the electrons through a training
session on how to play Prop-Scotch among the clouds in the D layer of the
Ionosphere from 12:20 PM EST, (1720 UTC) onward, so drift on in and park the
VFO.	
	
The Net proper will begin at 1:15 PM EST, (1815 UTC).  It is almost that time of
the year when frogs do their mating thing, watch the special on "Frog Went A
Courtin'" on the National Geographic channel, so be warned that Frogzilla will
be practicing his basso profondo 'CROAK!' in a very flat low C and it is not the
NCS person venting hydrogen sulfide from his biological catalytic converter!   	
	
The frequency will be 14.293 MHZ usb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and my
teenage grandson, Brandon, trying to drop a self-inflating cork with his CO2
powered cork gun into Frogzilla's yawning abyss as he opens wide to split
atmospheric atoms with a mighty "Yo Froglein!". Now Brandon is a virtual force
to be reckoned with on his Sony Playstation #2, equipped with Grandpa's 1970
vintage Sony TA-1144 stereo amplifier and pseudo-surround sound system, but he
can't hit the broad side of a Rhino's rump in the real world! So if you have a
hankering for deep fried frog legs, ya better head on over to Long John Slithers
and if you are one of those amphibian equal rights pond advocates, you have
nothing to worry about, unless you happen to be in my grandson's unpredictable
line  of cork fire! So that Pop, Pop, Pop in the background is not resisters in
my SX-117 giving up the ghost and hurling themselves at the chassis in a
splatter chatter moment of suicidal selectivity!    	
	
Here is hoping to hear you tomorrow punching holes through the pollutant tainted
clouds as they drop snowflakes and acid sleet on we folks suffering here in the
northern snow country. I understand how difficult it is for you where it is warm
and sunny to be sympathetic to us frostbitten friends of Frosty The Snowman that
you are charging nearly double for fresh orange juice, but just take a few
seconds and visualize yourself wearing a snowball made from a frozen cow pie
that is stuck right between your eyes! Maybe Brandon can't get within a thousand
yards of you hurling a snowball with his sling shot, but thanks to my homebrew
GPS tracking system with LASER guided target aquisition, infrared heat sensing
for tracking sneaky humans and the ability to keep that LASER crosshair right
between your eyeballs. Let's just play radio and both duck if my grandson is in
the area with that cork gun, snowball or anything mobile!	
	
Duane Fischer, W8DBF  	
NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International	
netcontrol at w9wze.org	
HCI Web Site: http://www.w9wze.org