[Hallicrafters] Join Saturday Halli 40 Meter Net!

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Last Saturday we had fabulous propagation! Like before the Sun took a dive 
into his solar system seemingly bottomless pool of pathetic propagation! So 
drift on in tomorrow and lets make those things that still go glow in the 
dark plant some ground roots and grow some propagation that not even Jack 
and his beanstalk dare climb!

The Pre-Net - where everybody and his fourth cousin on his mother-in-laws 
side tunes up their rigs without asking if the frequency is in use - begins 
with blaring trumpets at 12:30 PM EST/EDT, (1630 UTC). It really isn't a 
trumpet making that racket, it is somebody with a very gassy purple tube 
that is about to leave this life with a Bang!

The Net proper - where somebody somewhere is bound to call "CQ CQ CQ Green 
Pizza QSO Party - commences at 1:00 PM EST/EDT, (1700 UTC). You can tell the 
vintage Hallicrafters SR-2000, HT-37 + SX-111 M12 + HT-41 and BC-610 + SX-28 
+ modified HT-45 and lots of other flavors of vintage vacuum tube rigs just 
began to glow as the utility power meters in the hood are spinning like 
tops!

The frequency is 7.280 MHZ lsb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and lots of 
watts making the D layer of the Ionosphere shake like only those heavily 
insured hips of Elvis Presley could do.

Please procrastinate performing that longer then your arm list of 'honey do 
this or else' items and make your neighborhood a safer place by irradiating 
people, plants and pets so they too can glow in the dark! Hey! That hip high 
grass will still be there a hour or two later! It won't leave, trust me, it 
will wait for you!

I hope to hear lots of you tomorrow, so drift on by and lets play with radio 
waves and give those Aliens listening to us from the Exoplanet 4.3 LY 
distant some things to ponder before sticking their beaks through that big 
hole in the Oh-Oh-zone 250 KM east of Santa's workshop!

Duane Fischer, W8DBF - WPE8CXO
E-Mail: dfischer at usol.com

Hallicrafters web site: www.w9wze.net

HHRP web site: hhrp.w9wze.net