[Hallicrafters] HHI Sunday Net - See Them Glow Despite The Snow!

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Please take a restorative break from the vegetable like position you have 
assumed upon the living room couch with that bag of chips, dish of dip, diet 
softdrink, satellite TV guide, several remotes, emergency supply of 
batteries for aforementioned remotes ... Wake up, GET up and put some fire 
into that dipole wire that feeds your neglected Hallicrafters! If it glows, 
it has to be vintage and we shall hope that the perfect vacuum is inside the 
tubes, valves for the UK subscribers, and not between the portals of wisdom 
on the Homo Sapien that support his tri-focals and "Glow On Halli!" hat. 
Take a break, join us on Sunday March 4th for the Sunday edition of the 
Halligan's Hallicrafters International 20 meter Net. AKA, the HHI Net.

I guarantee that you will learn something every Net! Now as to what that 
will be, pick a card, any card ... Sorry, but when one made his living 
causing cute furry rabbits to vanish into 'It Ain't Never Comin' Back 
Land!', cutting beautiful female assistants into six pieces with razor sharp 
blades and putting them back together without having extra pieces left over, 
then when not on stage, off stage fighting it out with legal Eagles 
dispatched by the ASSPCA who think a rabbit's foot is only lucky when the 
rabbit is wearing it and that professional Magicians are sent by some great 
evil power to delude unsuspecting carbon based life forms into thinking 
Merlin the Magician made a fortune by enchanting members of his Saturday 
matinee performance and causing them to throw their gold teeth at him 
instead of  bronze covered girdles and Moth eaten Raccoon fur hats with bald 
areas! Just light up those historic Halli's, or any flavor of vintage vacuum 
tube gear that lights your filaments and dips your grid, and tune us in!

The Pre-Net commences at 12:45 PM EST, (1745 UTC), and the HHI Net proper 
starts at 1:15 PM EST, (1815 UTC). That is, if the blind Wizard does not 
forget to perpetuate the pendulum on the 1/100 scale model of London's Big 
Ben so that he rings my chimes for Net time!

The frequency will be 14.293 MHZ usb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and 
the slightly shrill call of "Contact!", (the voice pitch rises in proportion 
to the degree of shrinking of the operators briefs or boxers from the 
excessive skin water venting but not evaporating), from the excited throng 
of /AG and /AE operators who are trying very hard to sound like "old pro's" 
and not green as a painted pickle HF virgins! Hey! Like most of us have been 
in their awkward, but emotionally exciting, beginners CQ seat and know how 
it felt to suddenly key the mike, open mouth to expound with newly learned 
Ham lingo and have the tongue tie itself in a knot not found in the Boy 
Scout Handbook of woodlands survival and stutter and sputter like a talking 
clock stuck in a 'for/next' phoneme loop! As annoying as some find this to 
be, had it not been for the patience HF veterans showed us, as well as their 
restraint from flexing their trigger finger, most of us would not be very 
polished, highly proficient and genuine professionals that we believe we 
are! (LOL!)

Just keep your knees together guys and your ankles loose, and be sure to get 
the right angle of dangle on the dipole feedline. Here is hoping to hear 
many of you rise from the fog of cycle bottom propagation deprivation with a 
speaker shaking 5/9+ tomorrow. Hear you then!


Duane Fischer, W8DBF
dfischer at usol.com
HHI: Halligan's Hallicrafters International
http://www.w9wze.net
HHRP: Historic Halligan Radio Project
http://hhrp.w9wze.net