[Hallicrafters] Tune In The Saturday Halli Net And Let The Goodtimes Glow!

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Please park your chores tomorrow and join us for the Saturday July 25th HHI 
(Halligan's Hallicrafters International) 40 meter Net. With apologies to my 
friend Ben Franklin, a penny saved was a penny earned! Maybe it was earned, 
maybe it was stolen! What matters is not where you got it, but what you do 
with it now! Put another way for the lymrick challenged: Work put off being 
done today, will still be waiting for you tomorrow! He who procrastinates 
gets more time to play, which Psychologists tell us will improve both our 
life span and our quality of life. So by playing radio on a Saturday, you 
will live longer to do all of that work you put off! Buy some Sheep, let 
them eat the darn grass! Free fertilizer too!

Now that I think about it, I wonder if a penny even existed when Ben was 
debating with Secretary Of The Treasury to be, Alexander Hamilton about the 
Great Seal, the all seeing eyeball and that pyramid? But that is a 
Numismatic tale for another time -

The Saturday 40 meter pre-Net commences at 12:30 PM EST/EDT, or 1630 UTC. So 
go check your digital replica of the Grecian sun dial you got free for 
signing up for that satellite video service to be sure you still have 
battery power in reserve for those days that the Sun don't shine!

The HHI Net proper begins at 1:00 PM EST/EDT, or 1700 UTC. If the sun dial 
is DOA, try checking the time with WWV in Boulder, Colorado. Speaking of 
radio time signals, where the heck did CHU in Canada move the forty meter 
signal to after they vacated 7.335 MHZ?

The frequency will be 7.280 MHZ lsb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and 
some shatter the ear wax into micron sized fragments audio from the relays 
doing the Limbo Rock courtesy of a well meaning vintage radio devotee who's 
latest aquisition has a serious case of relay rattle! Hey! You never know 
what a piece of vintage gear is going to do next, so life is never dull! Nor 
are all Coms Q5 either!

Join us tomorrow and let's give the grass a rest while we make these wonders 
that still go glow in the dark light up our lives. And maybe a few of our 
neighbors new electronic wonder gadgets too! Like putting their garage door 
opener into an endless loop! Causing the invisible pet fence to transmit 
canine sounds humans can not hear but invites all the dogs in a quarter mile 
area over for a snack and then zaps them when their nose discovers that 
fence! Or causes all new digital watches to run backwards! In any event, 
join us and let's go where the glow leads us.


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