[Hallicrafters] Join Halli Saturday Net And Kick Start Your Clock

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Hi All,

Guess what? If there is not already enough confusion in the Cosmos as to 
when the current solar cycle left solar minimum behind and headed toward 
solar maximum, now the Tweedle Dumbs of time have us on their new daylight 
savings time plan. Well, once again, those with way too much time on their 
hands have messed with Mother Nature, never ever a wise thing to do!

The last entity to fool around with her was old Father Time. Remember him? 
He used to co-host the solar system in the dark ages of the wearer having to 
wind up the watch mainspring to keep time ticking. No, not those Dark Ages - 
where if you ticked, your head got tocked off in the tower of London! These 
were before somebody who had stock in a battery company figured out how to 
stuff a tiny battery inside a watch to illuminate the digital display where 
originally those things called hands and numerals called home! Father Time 
tried to use the 'new math' to calculate a exponential calendar formula to 
cause every equinox to occur on the twenty-first day of March, June, 
September and December. Now since Mother Nature is of the gender commonly 
known as female, and since females in their 'mothering years' are often 
subject to fits of explosive emotional outbursts, worse by a magnitude of 
ten then major solar flares, known as PMS, they demand having twenty-four to 
forty-eight hours flexibility as to what days Spring, Summer, Autumn and 
Winter occur. Father Time made the unfortunate mistake of  springing his 
curve of equinox equalization when Mother Nature was tormented by the 
physical agony and emotional nitroglycerin volatility of her Bi-Polar PMS. 
Very bad timing!

Now most of you who have not had your head buried up to your fifth cervical 
vertebrae in landfill refuse searching for remnants of your original birth 
certificate that your ex-wife ran through her paper shredder, have heard the 
much proclaimed wrist watch advertising ploy "takes a kicking and keeps on 
ticking". Right? Well, it really was not a clever Ad rhyme for the Timex 
watch, but something said about anyone who survived the muscle bound Knight 
swinging that double sided Axe and relieving prisoners of their heads and 
aches and then surviving the food served in the fabled Tower Of London. 
There were more bugs in what they served then are planted in the buildings 
of Washington, D.C.!

Mother Nature gave Father Time a one way Lamehound diesel bus, leaky Tiki 
glass bottom boat and single engine bi-plane ticket to the Caribbean. Talk 
about the 'no frills' package! Now this did tick Father Time off for a 
minute, but knowing that when it came to Mother Nature, a hour saved may be 
all you have left to live! He bought a mil surplus GPS transmitting rescue 
beacon, moonlight powered handheld Korean command radio, older then time 
itself book by somebody named Thor on Easter Island about raft building and 
enough MRE to feed the population of a starving third world country! Mother 
Nature promised him that he could return just as soon as he finished the two 
small tasks she had for him to do.

The last anyone knew Father Time was holed up in some tropical island cave 
trying to invent a nutrino powered calendar for Big Ben that showed the 
phases of Luna, the planting season for Mars and how long it would take for 
heat resistant plants to breathe enough of the Carbon Dioxide on Venus to 
allow astronauts to drain off the excessive amount of Sulfuric acid present! 
Then to design a second hand for a sun dial accurate to one thousandth the 
thickness of a slice of Quartz used in a modern watch with twin tuning 
forks.

So if you have any complaints about the daylight savings plan that ticks off 
Sunday March 9th at 2:00 AM EST, (0700 UTC), you would be wise to send them 
to the National Bureau Of Standards in Boulder, Colorado and NOT by e-mail 
to Mother Nature! That is, unless you would like to join Father Time in the 
tropics and learn first hand how time flies when you are having fun!

The rest of you can join us on Saturday March 8th at 12:45 PM EST, (1745 
UTC), for the HHI 40 meter Pre-Net. Then drop anchor so you do not drift 
off, and join us for the Net proper at 1:00 PM EST, (1800 UTC). The 
frequency will be 7.280 MHZ lsb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and 
somebody shouting "CQ QSO Party" with someone else throwing a carrier on top 
as they tune their rig up! Be there and enjoy the propagation as it dances 
back and forth between short and long. If you hang ten and keep them 
glowing, the band will open up in your area. So be patient!

Hear you tomorrow!


Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
dfischer at usol.com

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