Fw: [Hallicrafters] Yes! Sunday HCI Net, Let's Grill 20M!

Sun Jul 3 21:46:40 EDT 2005

Hey Tom, 	

Keep your knees together and your ankles loose son, getting the right angle on
the dangle is critical! Which is important when soldering, plugging a vacuum
tube into a socket without bending the pins at angles the engineers never
intended because your trifocals fogged up from looking out the corner of one eye
and breathing heavily as you lust over an old Allied Electronics wish book and
seeing some of those prices the gear used to sell for or trying to do that moon
walk thing that MJ used to do when he was more interested in how many muscle
spasms he could create simultaneously than in decent posture.      	

Tom, I have 'never' commented or discussed or even had a dream about the "807"
vacuum tube with you or anyone else. In fact, I am not even certain we have had
any discussion about anything at anytime, sir. Perhaps you can refresh my
neurons and tell me about this discourse we are engaged in?  	

Thank you sir. 	

Duane Fischer, W8DBF	
dfischer at usol.com	

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From: Tom Chirhart <sparks at codepoets.com>
To: 'Duane Fischer, W8DBF' <dfischer at usol.com>
Subject: RE: [Hallicrafters] Yes! Sunday HCI Net, Let's Grill 20M!
Date: Sunday, July 03, 2005 8:55 AM

Duane are you sure Hallicrafters never used 807's..... if they were
used, and if the equipment was "cold iron" (power secured-Navy/Mil term)
those 807's would be cold as well.
Even if they Hallicrafters didn't use 807's there's no stopping anyone
on the net from experimenting....

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[mailto:hallicrafters-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Duane
Fischer, W8DBF
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 3:16 AM
To: hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Hallicrafters] Yes! Sunday HCI Net, Let's Grill 20M!

BYOBB dudes and let's party! No booze, that means "Bring Your Own
Burgers and
Buns". This weekend is a three day annual American Independence Day eat,
drink
and be merry event, for come Tuesday you are on a serious fat free,
sugar free
and flavor free diet! So light up those charcoal grills and let those
wonderful
briquettes add that cooked outside flavor and smell that you can't get
any other
way! Light up the Halli meanwhile, as it needs to do a little cooking of
its own
to get ready to party!  Light up, well, unless you are one of those
barbecuing
challenged wimps who uses propane gas to grill a half pound burger or
frankfurter or juicy T-bone steak on, then sprinkle some kind of
seasoning upon
the meat to add the smell of Hickory from those 'pretend' wood logs the
natural
gas is whooshing out of. Then some of that stuff you squirt out of a
plastic jug
that adds the flavor only real wood smoke can impart to food. Oh yes,
for the
guy who has this gas trickery down to an art form, sprinkle some of the
actual
briquette ashes you got from a buddy's grill to make everyone think you
slaved
for half a day with your Swiss Army knife hacking up that deceased tree
in the
nearby county Nature Preserve and dragging it through a dense forest for
two
miles, using the paved bicycle trail, to your waiting four wheel drive
pickup,
then with your last ounce of strength wrestled those six inch logs into
the wood
storage box,  right beside the ice chest you filled with chipped ice at
7COME11
on your way earlier to the hardware store to buy a fresh propane log!	

So while the food is cooking, hand off that Chef's hat with the digital
timer/alarm built into the sun blocking brim, and two foot long harpoon
fork
thing to your sixteen year old nephew to watch, instead of your sister's
thirteen year old daughter wearing that Ham Radio bikini, you know, two
dots and
one dash! Join me for the HCI Sunday July 3rd edition of the
Hallicrafters
Collectors International 20 meter Net as the pre-Net portion will
commence at
12:45 PM EDT, (1645 UTC). Shake those buns and get checked in so you can
rush
back to be sure your nephew does not strain himself trying to watch the
meat on
the grill out of his left eye and your niece with his right eye! No meat
loaf
brain, don't shake those buns that the burgers and dogs slide into,
shake those
buns you sit on! Move it! Check in so you can check out those succulent
sizzling
steaks!  	

All right, it is now 1:15 PM EDT, (1715 UTC), and time for the HCI
fourth of
July Bust Your Buns For A Burger 20 Meter Net. Are you tuned to 14.293
MHZ usb
+/- for key clicks, mike splatter and some QRM that sounds like a
belching Pork
product on an adjacent frequency? Relax, no problem. Just a hot air
balloonist
with the VOX stuck in the "it won't turn off!" position, wearing a
headset and
venting excess gas! Sorry, that sound like a tuba trying to cough up the
Polka
Band leaders hair piece is actually that bloated balloon piloted by
Captain
Smog, who is dangling by his belt from some  nylon rope things
desperately
trying to shut off the gas vent valve, now starting to sound like two
outhouses
dueling it out for the top seat in the county fair's annual all you can
eat and
drink Bratwurst and Beer competition. The deflating hot air gas bag is
slowly
starting to look like one of those balloon animals those Circus Clowns
make and
sell you for five bucks! Stay tuned, as this event could become more
than just a
lot of creative hot air!    	

I hope to hear a whole herd of you today for the HCI 20 meter Net, so
whether it
is a Halli or some other vintage rig, just as long as the rig or the
operator
glow in the dark, it is legal! And if neither glow, well what the heck,
it is
Independence Day weekend, so we will let you lie with no penalty, even
if it is
Sunday. But as far as the 'forgiveness' for the for fun harmless little
glowing
lie goes, well ...we may need to consult with a higher power there.	

Duane Fischer, W8DBF	
NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International   	
netcontrol at w9wze.org
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