[Hallicrafters] Saturday HCI 40 Meter Net, Be There!

[W8DBF D.B. Fischer]

Please brave the propagation drought and join us on Saturday April 29th for 
the HCI 40 meter Net. Hopefully today, I will 'net' more than I did last 
Saturday. I felt like one of those small family run for a hundred years 
northeast fishing ships who was catching pull tabs, disposable diapers with 
a half life of ten thousand years or tread impaired rubber tires with steel 
side walls that not even a baby Shark will chew on to cut his teeth! Those 
fishermen are suffering due to overfishing, diseases that nearly wiped out 
the fish population and health hazards to humans from the Mercury and other 
poisons the fish have either eaten in their normal diet or absorbed from the 
polluted Atlantic Ocean. Truly tragic and my personal best wishes to those 
people are extended! Every now and then a marine mobile, some even using 
vintage gear, checks in. Perhaps if enough of you show up later on today we 
can have a Net no matter where the propagation is bouncing around like a 
teenager who drank a few too many of those 'power' soft drinks!

The pre-Net will commence at 12:30 PM EDT, (1630 UTC). The Net proper begins 
at 1:00 PM EDT, (1715 UTC) until about 2:30 PM EDT, (1830 UTC).

The frequency will be 7.280 MHZ lsb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and 
the startling vocalizations of my neighbor's new pet. Ever heard a Mexican 
Hairless dog bark in Espanol with a stutter that sounds like it is a 
reincarnation of a gangster known as Machine gun Kelly? Well you can sure 
hear this one! If you have ever seen one of these 'dogs', and I use that 
designation very liberally, it looks like a large, but skinny, Rat who had 
its hair fall out right after somebody smacked in in the nose with a wooden 
mallet! I do not want to call the dog ugly, but unless it sneaks up on a 
bowl of water to get a drink, the water evaporates and the bowl tries to 
roll away!

Being blind is an advantage in this case, as I do not have to look at it! On 
the other hand, my super sensitive ears can not but help to hear it 
sputtering away like a firecracker fuse with uneven amounts of black powder 
rolled up into the old fuse! But somebody out there loves them, maybe even 
finds them cute and cuddly. Or else the neighbor is planning on carving it 
up for Mother's Day!

Here is hoping to hear 'you' instead of static. So let's crowd the clouds 
and try to make the grass grow with some of that magical glow from the 
vintage wonders that still go glow in the dark!

Duane Fischer, W8DBF
NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International

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