[Hallicrafters] Join Sunday HHI 20 Meter Net

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

The Sunday September 30th HHI 20 meter Net begins with the Pre-Net at 12:45 
PM EST/EDT, (1645 UTC) and the Net proper at 1:15 PM EST/EDT, (1715 UTC). 
The frequency is 14.293 MHZ usb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and the 
reverbrating rattlling rumbles of ten thousand thunders as my homebrew chili 
works its way through my plumbing. If the 'loud and wide' ground is present 
spreading joy and QRM everywhere with equal dispersion +/-10 KHz, we will 
slide down to 14.292 MHZ usb and attempt to hear you there. Maybe we should 
just run in AM for fun on Sunday and see what shakes out of the ionossphere, 
government agencies and in states with four seasons, what shakes loose and 
floats down to mother earth as a beautifully colored leaf! Isn't at least 6 
+/- considered by radio experts as "real radio"?

Here is hoping to hear you tomorrow you lovers of things that still go glow 
in the dark without ingesting Radium or very tiny self-powered Barbie life 
like eyeballs that actually light up in blue, green, brown, hazel and red 
pine? Anyway, tune in tomorrow and learn who really designed the FPM-300 and 
why it suddenly vanished  from dealer showrooms just as CB    rigs with 40 
channels and a built in slider appeared. You know, that Cobra that used A 
Siltronics VFO, Drake W-4, someone's RX pre-amp with a supposed 36 DB gain 
with no noise level increase, the Penetrator vertical and the infamous 
Maverick two stage amplifier that you could work European DX with, fry an 
egg on top of, get a sun tan from having it closer to you then fifty feet, 
blanked out all TV sets within a 250 foot radius, enabled you to be heard on 
all FM receivers regardless of what frequencies they were designed to hear, 
open garage door systems for all neighbors as a free courtesy service, set 
off every kind of home security alarm system invented in the early 
seventies, flooded the security system office with automatically dialed 
calls with prerecorded robotic taped messages from Mars on those really 
small cassettes, cause dogs and cats wearing metal choke chains to do pole 
vault moves in your living room when you keyed the mike and expensive exotic 
tropical fish in home aquariums to explode or leap out of the tank and end 
up on your carpeting in front of shocked guests flipping and flopping around 
until it either died from suffocation or a family pet ate it! Damn! I miss 
the Browing 'purely legal" CB station I had!


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