[Hallicrafters] Please Join The Halli Sunday 20M Net

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Please join us on Sunday October 24th for the HHI 20 meter Net. If you are 
not using Hallicrafters, or some other flavor of vintage gear, you are still 
welcome. All we ask is that you have an interest in vintage radio and/or 
vintage audio.

The Pre-Net is from 12:30 - 1:00 PM EDT, or 1630 - 1700 UTC.

The HHI Net proper is from 1:00 - 2:00 PM EDT, or 1700 - 1800 UTC.

REMEMBER! As of November 7th the Net times will change, along with the 
banishment for a few months of DST! The Pre-Net will start at 12:45 PM EST, 
or 1745 UTC. The Net proper will begin at 1:15 PM EST, or 1815 UTC and run 
until 2:30 PM EST, or 1930 UTC.

This change is because many of you have requested that we return to the time 
schedule that you have known for the past twelve years or so. While I was 
hospitalized the Net time was moved back a hour. So to try and be fair to 
all concerned, we are going to split the difference and move the 
Hallicrafters Net forward only thirty minutes. Then the following Net can 
begin at 2:30 EST instead of the original starting time of 3:00 PM EST. 
Hopefully this will keep the majority of all involved happy and not 
inconvenience too many Hams.

We do appreciate your cooperation.

The frequency will be 14.293 MHZ USB +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and 
leftover tooth rattling skulls from Halloween. As well as some of those 
famous, or is it infamous, chads from election booth ballots! Remember that 
rather ridiculous event?

Here is hoping to hear many of you tomorrow. For whatever the reason, my 
antennas have been hearing impaired to anyone in the midwest the past five 
weeks. Although last Sunday I did hear Oregon, Colorado, Nevada, Missouri, 
New Mexico and Arizona. Heck, on Saturday I even worked a station in 
Wisconsin! That was the first one in eighteen months. So there may yet be 
hope!

I had to chuckle several weeks ago when one of the solar weather people with 
NASA proclaimed that we would hit the solar minimum in 2012! How long has 
this eleven year solar cycle been going now ... If they predict enough 
dates, sooner or later they have got to be right due to the laws of 
probability and chance!

Oh yes, the weekend of October 30th and 31st Not only is October 31st 
Halli-ween, or Halloween, it is also the for real Magician's Holiday. Truth! 
Why? Because Harry Houdini died in Beaumont Hospital in Detroit, Michigan on 
October 31, 1926 of a ruptured appendix. That was before the discovery of 
antibiotics.

It is also the weekend of a world wide DX contest that many Hams like to 
participate in. For this reason, we will suspend the Hallicrafters Sunday 20 
meter Net on Halloween. So carve your pumpkins, give the children some 
candy, work some new and rare DX and have fun. We will be on the twenty 
meter band somewhere wandering around with an ear to the speaker listening 
for a new country to add to our humble list of 143 verified contacts.

Hear ya tomorrow!

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