[Hallicrafters] Sunday HCI Net, We Need You!

Sun Jul 10 02:37:16 EDT 2005

Please take a break from herding the sheep on loan from the county 4H
association who are keeping your grass trimmed because you can't afford gas for
the riding lawnmower! Pour yourself a tall, cool glass of lemonade, iced tea
with a lemon slice or one of those flavored water things and join us on Sunday
July 10th for the Hallicrafters Collectors International 20 meter Net. 	

I will repeat the special announcements from Saturday, for those who were not
able to hear them first ear. (First ear not to be confused with firsthand). Some
way cool stuff is coming your way over the next twelve months, one about every
three months, if all goes as hoped. 	

As soon as our super talented Web master, KA1DGL, Fred Mooney, who just moved to
a new QTH, gets his feet planted long enough in one spot to sprout some roots,
he will be putting up a really attractive and colorful page that will describe
what is on the DVD I will be releasing in September that features a forty-five
minute never before seen by the world exclusive video interview with Bill
Halligan. This was filmed in November of 1983 when Bill was twenty days shy of
being eighty-five years young. I have acquired the actual original VHS tape and
I already have a DVD copy that is presently being edited. However, no part of
the original video will be electronically altered or enhanced, it will appear
just as it does on the original VHS film. There will be still photos inserted by
freezing the frame, showing the closeup of the still image for a few seconds,
then fading back into the video. The interview was done by Bill's close friend
Dr. Max De Henseler, HB9RS in NYC. Max did this interview more or less on the
spur of the moment. He holds up different QSL cards, magazine articles, photos
etc. and silently lets Bill Halligan know what he wants him to talk about next.
I have obtained all of these images, the originals, and these are what the still
close up shots will show the viewer. So you get to see exactly what Bill
Halligan saw.  	

There will be a number of other unique items on the DVD also. Including a text
copy of the dialogue from the video. A video trip back in time to 1948 for the
Getti DXpedition sponsored by Hallicrafters to Africa and the highest mountain
Mount Kilimanjaro at 19,340 feet, or 5898.7 meters, located in Ne Tanzania, near
the Kenya border. See all original QSL cards, Hallicrafters promotional
documents, actual letters from some who made that historic climb and more. Hear
the Hallicrafters recording released on a 45 rpm record called "The Amazing
World Of Short-wave". About fifteen minutes of actual events heard on
Hallicrafters by Hams and SW listeners, recorded on reel to reel tape and
preserved on a vinyl recording. Hear actual short-wave coms from a balloon
making history in 1935 setting an altitude record, President Dwight D.
Eisenhower in December 1958 speaking to the world on America's new satellite
Explorer 4 with a Christmas wish for peace and a whole lot more! Absolutely
fascinating, as all these events were live, not staged! Most recorded by Hams
and SW listeners, not professionals.	

There will be more on the DVD too, but I think you have gotten the idea by now
that it will be a one of a kind collection of history that transcends
Hallicrafters to all who enjoy radio from librarians to high school/college
instructors to historians to Amateur Radio operators to Short-Wave listeners and
beyond.	

Details for ordering by request, write me direct. The first 100 of the DVD will
be certified and will include a document with the issue number and the owner's
name and call sign (if applicable). Price is $25 plus postage. The first CD
series, two CDS, will also be certified for the first 100 sold. These will
contain lots of live audio, many photos, the historic Vatican DXpedition fully
documented and much more. It should be released at the end of October. Price is
$15 plus postage.	

Join us for the pre-Net at 12:45 PM EDT, (1645 UTC). The Net proper at 1:15 PM
EDT, (1715 UTC). The frequency will be 14.293 MHZ usb +/- for key clicks, mike
splatter and a whole lotta fun, facts, fellowship, for sale items, famous fibs
and more. Be there! Be counted! And enjoy those wonders that still go glow in
the dark without having to first eat Radium treated paint!      	

Duane Fischer, W8DBF	
NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International	
netcontrol at w9wze.org	
HCI: http://www.w9wze.org