[Hallicrafters] Attn. All Radio Hobbyists!

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

W9WZE Halligan's Hallicrafters Call For Sunday Special Net!

Tune in the HHI 20 meter Net tomorrow, Sunday September 23rd. You will hear 
a very "SPECIAL" historic Net, that you are not likely to ever hear live 
again! No, Frogzilla is not parking his slimy green more slippry than a 
graphite greased Hog's rump in the NCS chair! No, the blind dude is not 
going to climb the 60 foot high R-25g tower and do the HHI Sunday Net with a 
live remote! We are going to be joined live on the waves of air by Dr. Max 
De Henseler, HB9RS of Switzerland. So wind your Baby Ben alarm clocks, put a 
fresh battery in your digital wrist watch and set the alarm - do what you 
have to do - just do NOT let your siesta or football game or eighteen inch 
high Dagwood sandwich interfere with this rare historic opportunity to say 
you were there and heard it when it happened!

Max is the author of the most concise and carefully researched book ever 
written about William Halligan, Sr. and his legendary company named 
Hallicrafters. The book is entitled, "The Hallicrafters Story" and is 
available from Amazon. Dr. Max, and his late wife Renate, were very close 
personal friends of Bill and Katie Halligan. Check out the photos of Bill, 
Katie, Renate and Max in the HHRP DVD and CD packages! You can see the 
Miami, FL Winter home of the Halligan's, Bill's radio room and more. Besides 
that, you can hear Bill talking with Max and Renate live over dinner, Bill's 
acceptance speech when the QCWA presented him with their highest honor, The 
Hall Of Fame and more.

Because of the closeness that grew out of the warm and trusting friendship 
enjoyed by Bill and Max, many stories were shared with Dr. De Henseler that 
few, if any, others knew about. Many of these can be found in the HHRP 
materials; articles, photos and rare actual live video and audio.

It was the good Dr. Max who established the first Ham Radio station at the 
United Nations in NYC. You can also see photos of it, as well as Bill 
Halligan operating it, in the HHRP materials. Wherever Max traveled he 
sprrinkled the earthly loam with crystaline Galena and Silicon seeds of Ham 
Radio, just as some real person nicknamed Johnny Appleseed many decades 
before seeded the soil of the midwest with apples. Both became legends in 
their own right, but niether sought personal glory, just a more secure 
future for their dreams.

HB9RS is a man of many talents, accomplishments and experiences. Tomorrow, 
if we can make contact with him from his QTH in Switzerland, perhaps many of 
you can meet him live and in the flesh, sort of! Conditions permitting, we 
will let all who would like to greet Dr. Max do so via the HF roadway over 
the North Pole. If you have questions about Hallicrafters, Bill Halligan and 
so forth, please keep them general. Max is not, nor does he profess to be, 
an authority on Hallicrafters or anything else. What he can share with you 
are experiences he enjoyed with the King of things that go glow in the dark 
and fascinating tidbits of life in the land of Halli that the Chicago 
newspapers never knew! Max and Bill were friends and it is these mutual 
experiences over dinner or at a convention or while riding in a NYC taxi in 
route to get the David Sarnoff lifetime achievement award that Bill got in 
November 1983 etc. The stuff you do not get to read in manuals! It is an 
indescribable experience when you can actually touch or speak with someone 
who played a role in creating the history you grew up reading about. Here is 
your chance to reach out and touch a man who helped to make Ham Radio 
better. You will be amazed just how much more exciting and rewarding your 
own role in the realm of Ham Radio may become!

Dr. Max De Henseler is a very special man and someone I am more then proud 
to have as a friend. It was Max who contacted me and challenged me to make 
the historic material he had spent a lifetime collecting available to all 
Hams and radio hobbyists. Hence, the birth of HHRP - Historic Halligan Radio 
Project. Twenty-two months later HHRP had two DVD and six CD discs 
available. Out of my immense respect for this humble and unasuming gentle 
man I dedicated the entire HHRP archeive collection to Dr. Max De Henseler, 
HB9RS and his lovely and charming wife, Renate. Please read the "Dedication" 
on the HHRP CD diskettes. See her photo, read the verse that she and Max so 
loved and let it touch your heart as it touched mine.

So do your propagation D layer dance, shake your sloper, limber your lumbar 
with the Limbo Loop and somehow someway make those waves work so that we get 
the right angle on the downward takeoff angle and can QSO with HB9RS 5/9+ Q5 
with no QSB and QRM that we can stuff a non-conductive Cork into! Be there 
tomorrow! Light those tubes up! Warm up the high voltage Spark Gap flame 
flinger and put some fire in those mono band wires! Get the wax out of your 
ears, the Lead out of your Rumpus Buttas Maximus, yourself out of the 
recliner and join us for a day where we will have fun, fellowship and 
hopefully a chance to chat with a man who has been there, made a difference 
and loves Amateur Radio.

Any of you who would like to assist me with NCS duties and/or help with 
relays, please contact me by e-mail or telephone. Since propagation is about 
as predictable as how many times out of ten tries Frogzilla can sneak into a 
movie theater, gulp down a carbonated soft drink and belch without someone 
'croaking', I can use all the fire power you lovers of things that still go 
glow in the dark can supply me with! Thanks to one and all! Here is hoping 
to hear you tomorrow!

HHI NCS: Duane Fischer, W8DBF (tomorrow - W9WZE!)



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