[Hallicrafters] Join Saturday HHI 40 Meter Net!

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Please tune in the Saturday November 10th edition of the HHI 40 meter Net 
tomorrow. Hopefully there will be some short propagation instead of the much 
hated 300 mile zone of death!

The Pre-Net commences at 12:30 PM EST, 1730 UTC, and the Net proper starts 
at 1:00 PM EST, 1800 UTC. The frequency, as always and probably forever, is 
7.280 MHZ lsb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and static from my new 
neighbor's invisible electric animal fence thing. Somehow such a device 
seems cruel to me, but what do I know? Having been on the road for over 
thirty years as a professional Magician/Illusionist I have certainly 
vanished more then my share of rabbits! Even a few Skunks! Lots of offers to 
vanish wives or ex-wives, but I declined them. Can't trust those out of 
state checks! Certainly can not file a complaint with the local law 
enforcement people!
"You accidentally chopped off the head of a female member of the audience 
when your Guillotine malfunctioned and want us to arrest the guy who wrote 
you a bad check for volunteering her?" But when animals have an unfortunate 
on stage accident, I only get hate mail from the ASPCA!

But shocking a dog or cat with that electronic collar thing around their 
necks when they cross the property line, not so sure that is not something 
the ASPCA should send some hate mail about. I never realized that a bow 
legged French Poodle could jump that high! Remember that verse we all heard 
as kids; "Hey diddle diddle, the cat played the fiddle, and the dog jumped 
over the Moon", or something like that. Well this Poodle darn near got over 
the thirty foot high Granny Smith apple tree before gravity brought him back 
to the turf. Unfortunately he got impailed on the barbed wire on top of 
their security fence around the childrens sandbox and barked no more.

Have you read those reports about some Hams keying up and accidentally 
opening their neighbors garage doors, setting off security alarms and 
causing those invisible fence collars to shock pets? True! Anybody want to 
put one of those collars on this nasty Raccoon that keeps attacking my 
galvanized steel garbage cans and leaving steaming piles of excrement on my 
shed roof? You do not have to volunteer, I am even willing to pay you in 
cash or radio stuff!

So join us tomorrow and lets have some vintage vacuum tube radio fun, facts 
and fellowship. Hear you then.



Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
dfischer at usol.com
HHI: Halligan's Hallicrafters International
http://www.w9wze.net
HHRP: Historic Halligan Radio Project
hhrp.w9wze.net