[Hallicrafters] HCI Sunday 20 Meter Net Wake Up CQ

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Yo Humans!

Please join us on Sunday February 26th for the Hallicrafters Collectors 
International 20 meter Net. If you have something more important, more 
pressing, more interesting or ... You are simply deluded! But that is OK, as 
we all have our hangups, may yours be drip dry! What could possibly be more 
important, or enjoyable, than 2.5 hours of hot air from those wonders that 
still glow in the dark without the aid of Radium from your childhood? Isn't 
that stuff supposed to cause our body hair to fall out by age thirty, cause 
our bones to shrink and turn us into a Dwarf by age forty? Cause our skin to 
shrivel up like an over dried prune and our body to have more wrinkles than 
an unironed cotton shirt your teenage son, or grandson, hung up in the 
dresser drawer by wadding it up and shoving it in underneath the Levis he 
stores with one leg dangling out of the drawer for easy location? Yet 
despite all of these predictions of certain doom and "buy life insurance now 
before nobody will take you with a birth certificate having a footprint that 
glows in the dark!", we are still here, taking names and kicking butts when 
needed! Now the government is wondering what to do with a zillion so called 
Baby Boomers who are ready to retire and draw their SSA benefits and 
pensions. The problem is, Congress has been borrowing money from the SSA and 
Medicare trusts for decades to "balance the budget", never paid back so much 
as one copper 4.11 gram Lincoln! Now they did pay interest on the loan, make 
that loans, but decades of plundering the piggy bank has left old Porky on 
the slim side! In fact, if Porky turns sideways and sticks out his tongue he 
looks like a zipper!

Join us for the HCI 20 meter Net today and let's chew this over on our 
Hallicrafters, or other vintage radios that not only glow in the dark, but 
keep our mug of coffee warm, our feet warm (Northerners - take off your 
shoes before putting your tootsies on the HT-41 and Southerners who only 
wear shoes on Sunday to church - wash those little piggies!) and works like 
a camp cook stove if you use an Aluminum pie plate to fry up the bacon and 
eggs in! You can't do that with one of those modern rice burner things! Then 
again, you don't get a double hernia from lifting them to dust under either! 
Anyhow, just show up at 12:45 PM EST, (1745 UTC) for the pre-Net. Then 
refill the mug, drain the old lizard and settle in for another 105 minutes 
of fun, facts, fix it up tips from the pro's who knows, some flea market 
financial fibs, a funny tale or six, fascinating bits of history not 
recorded in any book yet, but told by guys who were there when Marconi made 
that first transmission, fantastic rigs for sale at prices not even a Taurus 
with a Titanium will can resist, pleas for parts that make you just want to 
box them up and send them "Free Matter For The Blind" and more. I guarantee 
that you will learn something during the Sunday HCI 20 meter Net! Now what 
is another issue!

The Net proper will start at 1:15 PM EST, (1815 UTC).

The frequency will be 14.292 MHZ usb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and 
the friendly chattering Chipmunks. (NCS to Tom Dailey, W0EAJ are you paying 
attention son? I did not post it as 14.293 and confuse you this time! Please 
send cash.) If you have ever heard the infamous "Chipmunks" by their 
compatriot David Seville, then you know what to expect! Alvin has got the 
paddle to the metal, as usual, he does this to amuse himself by watching 
Theodore and Rufus eyes cross and their ears twitch everytime he sends 'CQ' 
using the HA-1 keyer with his SR-150. Now what you may think is Senor Static 
clearing his throat before singing the sunspot seranade, is actually the 
Chipmunks trying to hit 'middle C' at the same time! That really shrill 
sound like a female with four inch fingernails scraping them across a 
chalkboard is David Seville doing what he does best, yelling at the 
Chipmunks, generally Alvin, in screach mode to stop doing that to his 
brothers! Ever hear splatter in three part harmony? Listen Sunday!

Oh by the way, the third Chipmunk's name is not Rufus. The first one to post 
his name on the list, and be correct, will receive paper currency with a 
face value of $1,000 courtesy of the government of Belarus.

I hope to hear many of you tomorrow, rather, later today! Be there and keep 
me company, a guy can only take so much three part harmony before he goes 
ballistic and grills Chipmunks!

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