[Hallicrafters] How The Halli Net Time Works

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Hi All,

The Halli Nets never vary from the apparent time shown on your standard 
watch or home clock. The Net always starts on Sunday at 1:15 PM EST/EDT, 
regardless if daylight savings time is active or not. I do this so that you 
never have to try and figure out whether the Net is now one hour earlier or 
one hour later.

The Net announcements that sometimes appear here do reflect the UTC time, 
adjusted for DST. Such as, 1:15 PM EST is 1815 UTC when daylight time is not 
operating. It is 1715 UTC when daylight savings time is operating. 
Nevertheless, the usual starting time for the Net remains a constant, it is 
still 1:15 PM in the eastern time zone!

So it is very easy to remember what time the Halligan's Hallicrafters 
International 20 meter Sunday Net always begins, 1:15 PM EST/EDT, 12:15 PM 
CDT/CST, 11:15 AM MST/MDT and 10:15 AM PST/PDT.

It does not make a rodent's tail hair bit of difference whether you use UTC, 
GMT, Zulu, True Local Time, Siderial Time or Micky Mouse watch time, the Net 
is always at the same time, 1:15 PM EST/EDT +/- for your zone!

If you are confused, just visit the HHI web site and read the Saturday 40 
meter Net report or the Sunday 20 meter Net report and note the starting 
time.

Now as for the Wednesday evening Global Glow Roundtable, it starts at 6:30 
PM EST/EDT. The frequency is 14.315 MHZ. Since there has been little, or no, 
propagation on 20 meters at this time, after fifteen minutes of dead air we 
drop to 40 meters. Try 7.190 MHZ at 6:45 PM EST/EDT. If the international 
short-wave broadcasters are hammering us as thin as a fast food burger 
patty, then drop down to 7.143 MHZ. Normally we can operate there without 
much QRM/QRN and commercial broadcast splatter.

If you do not hear anything on any of the aforementioned frequencies by 7:00 
PM EST/EDT, you are SK and did not know it, the band has gone down the solar 
cycle sewer, your rig is not powered up or it isn't Wednesday! Then again, 
the NCS, the blind wonder in MI, forgot and is not on the air! However, this 
is generally quickly corrected by one of you ringing the chimes on my red 
hotline phone in the Ham Shack and awakening me from a fantasy dream of 
owning a working SX-115, a Collins AM kick rump station or some chick from 
the sixties Annette Funicello Beach Party flicks!

If you really want to get the technical truth on the topic of time, then 
read my article entitled; "Pick A Zone, Any Zone" in the Roadway To The 
World area on the HHI web site. Hopefully it will make more clear how time 
works.


Duane Fischer, W8DBF - WPE8CXO
E-Mail: dfischer at usol.com
Hallicrafters web site: www.w9wze.net
HHRP web site: hhrp.w9wze.net