[Hallicrafters] Join Sunday HCI 20 Meter Net And Ask -

[W8DBF D.B. Fischer]

Please join us on Sunday April 23rd for the Hallicrafters Collectors 
International 20 meter Net. Where we will pose the philosophically deep 
question: If Minnesota Fats had been a Ham, what angle would he have used to 
bank the '7' ball off the side cushion to get the maximum deflection and 
precise velocity to strike the D layer of the Ionosphere and be redirected 
back toward the propagational pool table so that his signal could be heard 
equally well in Maine, Florida, California and Washington? While some 
principals of Physics are involved here, the primary tool needed is a good 
working knowledge of the subject of Geometry.

The pre-Net will commence at 12:45 PM EDT, (1645 UTC).

The Net proper will begin at 1:15 PM EDT, (1715 UTC)

The frequency will be 14.293 MHZ usb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and 
the hurrendous racket of a mechanical Beaver with glistening metal teeth 
that chew up uprooted shrubs, tree branches, large tree limbs, wooden split 
rail fences, careless bird houses, old Rover's dog motel and flea factory 
and anything else made of wood it can grab and stuff into that motorized 
mouth. Hopefully Buck Tooth the Beaver will devour that huge tree limb that 
fell off my neighbor's eighty foot ancient Oak during a storm in 2005. It 
smashed my privacy fence into enough splinters to supply the Lions clubs 
throughout America with toothpicks for their finger slickin' good chicken 
barbacues for the next five years! Smacked my thirty foot steel TV tower up 
along side the rotor plate and bent it38 degrees due south! Looks a little 
weird, but it sure pulls in the signals from Canada great now! Hit my #12 
gauge solid Copper 150 foot long wire SW antenna as it fell and uprooted my 
neighbor's steel clothesline pole where I had one end anchored, the stress 
caused the aluminum clothesline wire to snap and it flung her entire weeks 
worth of fresly laundered bra's, bath towels, dish towels, wash cloths, 
kitchen aprons, underwear, bed sheets, pillow cases, white sweat socks, 
window curtains, bedspreads and t-shirts that were snow white bright whites 
into the neighbor's dog training kennel. I had to take out a second mortgage 
just to replace all of those whites that nothing could get the brown spots 
out of! Then yanked out my front yard flag pole with my grandson's NASCAR 
flag atop it and sent it flying through the air like a gigantic spear the 
jolly Green Giant might use for frog gigging! Except in this case it speared 
the neighbors 200 gallon pressurized propane gas tank he used to cool and 
heat his humidity controlled wine celler stocked with rare imported grape 
juice squeezings. Wow! That sucker blew like Mount St. Helen's when she 
burped! Every animal in the area had a stupid smile on its face for the next 
week, smelled like a brewery and slept where they passed out! That was the 
third mortgage.

Gotta go! I think Bucky Beaver just sharpened his teeth on my vertical! Oh 
great! It just chewed off the steel guy wires holding up the utility 
companies big tower with those high tension lines on it and there are more 
sparks flying than at a fourth of July sparkler spectacular!

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