[Hallicrafters] Heads Up! HHI Web Site Rises From The Dead!

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

As many of you know, and several dozen have informed me, the HHI (Halligan's 
Hallicrafters International) web site did a vanishing act about Thursday 
evening. Maybe it too wanted time off for the Easter holiday!

I spoke with our incredibly talented Web Master, W5JT, Jim Thayer, last 
evening by landline. He had been busy over the holidays and was not aware 
the web site was gone. Clever man that he is, Jim fixed the problem while we 
were on the phone. Sometimes security programs, even lines of code, work too 
well and block everything!

Thanks to all who telephoned me, or wrote to me, to let me know that the HHI 
web site was gone. It is great to know that the Hallicrafters fans, as well 
as other vintage radio devotees, enjoy the web site and visit it enough to 
know it is gone! No, the blind Magician/Illusionist did not dust his 
assortment of magical wands and have one misfire! However, when the HHI site 
goes amuck, gets stuck or is turned off cause nobody paid the providers some 
bucks, you really should write to the man in charge, the Web Master.

Which brings up another issue. You can not write to 'WebMaster at w9wze.net' 
when the site is down! So give the portly porcelin pig a whack with the well 
worn Louisville Slugger still lurking in the corner from your long lost 
childhood and use the change to ring his chimes! Or just do what most of you 
do anyhow, write or call me! (LOL!)

Keep checking the HHI web site troops! As sometime in the next two to four 
weeks something new, fantastic and fun is going to debut! Courtesy of HB9RS, 
Dr. Max De Henseler of Switzerland! I can think of nobody other then Dr. Max 
who has contributed so much Hallicrafters historical material to our beloved 
Halli Hobby. However, this is absolutely NOT to take a thing away from what 
Al Parker has done or Doug Moore or Chuck Dachis or Ole Jack in IL and many 
others. The HHI web site is fantastic because of all that all of you have 
contributed over the decades!

Which brings up one final point. The HHI web site is "NOT" supported or 
using free server space as it once did! Right now, and for almost two years 
now, it is being paid for by two people. It would be absolutely terrific if 
some of you would send W5JT five dollars each year to keep the site 
operating. He has to pay for the domain names, server space, hosting costs 
and so forth.

Whatever you send to W5JT to help keep the HHI web site operating will be 
appreciated. Thank you for helping keep Hallicrafters alive and glowing!

Duane Fischer, W8DBF

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