[Hallicrafters] Sunday Halli 20M Net, SSB Sweepstakes Or Not!

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Join us Sunday March 8th for the HHI Sunday 20 meter Net. Worldwide SSB 
Sweepstakes or not, we shall park in the NCS chair and hope to get the right 
bank shot takeoff angle and find a place on the layer of D to get a return 
angle that comes down somewhere on this planet! Being totally blind, I will 
make no promises as to which state said signal shall beam on down to, or as 
to what state of mind you will be in when it does! But somewhere among the 
Hams calling CQ in the hundreds of tongues spoken on this third rock from 
the Sun, myself, and others who still get a charge out of those wonders that 
still go glow in the dark, shall be listening!

Unless I read my Braille calendar wrong, and depending how much abuse said 
dots that comprise the 'Braille Cell' have already endured, I may or may not 
even be reading the right month, I think the daylight savings time thing 
kicks in at 2:00 AM March 8th. Hence, you Spring ahead one hour now, so that 
you can fall backwards on your Rumpus Buttacus Maximus the First Sunday in 
November.

Hence, remember Fischer's rule! The apparent time on your ordinary watch or 
wall clock or desk clock will "NOT" be affected by DST! If you reside in the 
EST zone, the Net still commences at 1:15 PM EST or EDT! However, the UTC 
does change from 1:15 PM = 1815 to 1:15 PM = 1715 UTC! Since most Hams can 
not compute UTC, Coordinated Universal Time, AKA 'CUT', anyhow, just look at 
the time piece you normally use nad the Net will still begin at the same 
time, all the time, that clock or watch shows!

I hope to hear some of you tomorrow for the Pre-Net at 12:45 PM EST/EDT, 
1645 UTC, and the HHI 20 meter Net at 1:15 PM EST/EDT, or 1715 UTC. The 
frequency will be 14.293 MHZ usb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and a 
whole lotta loose lips chatterin' tomorrow! So dig in, get a grip on that 
mike, the old chicken choker hold for the chrome lollipop, and be ready to 
shout "Contact", "Break NCS Before I Yank Your Choke Chain Tight!" or just 
"Yo NCS, how copy?"
Show the world that you've got what it takes to go glow and stand by your 
vertical and keep keying until the metal melts to form a beautiful shinny 
ground cake Moon bounce pancake plane or buttered with WD-40 antenna.


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