[Hallicrafters] Join Sunday Halli Net!

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Hi All,

It is 'that time' again and here is a modified piece from the past to 
hopefully brighten your day.

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          Daylight Leaping Ahead Ain't A Video Game!


                                  By Duane B. Fischer, W8DBF


     Please join us on Sunday November 6th for the HHI 20
meter Net.  Remember to set the time back by one hour at 2:00
AM EST! Or at 2:00 AM in whatever zone of time you are a
resident of!

     Setting a wrist watch, bedside alarm clock, microwave
oven display, replica of the 1752 pendulum powered
grandfather clock that Benjamin Franklin owned or whatever
your chronometer is, can be tricky!  The exception being a
trusty old sun dial! For those having a digital time piece
that lost both its hands to a tiny tuning fork that did not C
Sharp, great care must be taken so you do not end up as a B
flat!  You need to expose said watch to a very powerful
magnetic field and suck those LCD digits backward! Sort of
like using that infamous educational toy known as the "Etch-
A-Sketch".  Just keep moving the electromagnetic field around
until the numeral "2" looks the same as the numeral "3"! Now
that you have the hour sprung back, get the electromagnetic
field generating device away from the proximity of your
digital time piece fast!  Otherwise you may cause that secret
Oriental stuff that makes up the liquid crystal to revert
back to Japanese characters!  If you think telling time with
a watch with moving hands is difficult, try dancing Oriental
bamboo shoot symbols!

     Now for those who's only regular exercise comes from
winding their wrist watch or twisting the knob on the back of
their trusty Baby Ben alarm clock, pay attention!

     The Winter solstice is not until December 22nd, but that
is no reason to spring backwards again and risk spraining the
main spring!  For when it comes to time, one never gets a
seconds chance!  During the Revolutionary War the Minute Men
were never on time, so why should you be?

     Beware of the key clicks, mike splatter and the ticked
off chronometers who have their hands emotionally bent
because a Homo Sapien neglected to pay them proper attention
at the appointed hour and twist their stem! A penny saved may
be three cents earned, provided the penny is dated prior to
1982, or even better, 1962! Before the treasury reduced the
original weight of 4.11 grams and then in 1982 dropped the
Copper content from 95% down to 4.6%!  The penny now consists
of mostly Zinc and tin with a little Copper mixed in to color
the coin. Actually the penny is now Copper plated!  The Mint
needed someway to justify the name "Copper Penny"!

     Besides, the penny was the only American coin to be
worth its face value based on metallic content!  When the
price of Copper took off like a Saturn 5 bound for the lunar
Sea Of Tranquility, the treasury hurridly got their
Alchemists to Copper plate a Zinc coin! If you have a roll of
Lincoln Memorial cents dated from 1963 to 1982, they are
worth $1.40  The Mint did not reduce the 95% of Copper in
1962, but they did alter the Zinc and Tin to reduce the
weight from 4.11 grams to 3.04 grams. If you have a roll of
either Lincoln Wheat cents from 1909 through 1958 or a roll
of Lincoln Memorial cents from 1959 through 1961, they are
worth $1.89 a roll! But if you have a roll dated after 1982
when the Mint reduced the Copper content from 95% down to 2.4
%, and the weight from 3.04 grams down to 2.5 grams, they are
worth $.029088 cents. For the math impaired, that amounts to
a roll of fifty being worth a grand total of 2.9088 cents!

              This fantastic and interesting Numismatic
information contributed by The Amazing One, himself, W8DBF!
Just be thankful that I did all of that math for you!
(Chuckle!)

     Remember, but a second lost is time you won't ever be
able to go fast enough to gain back! According to Albert
Einstein's Special Theory Of Relativity. The closer one gets
to the velocity of light, about 186,000 miles per second, the
greater the mass of the approaching object becomes. Since it
weighs more, it takes more energy to keep going faster. Since
the mass is constantly increasing, and the needed energy
keeps increasing, it is NOT possible to ever reach the
velocity of light. According to Einstein. It is a never
ending cycle, like trying to pay off your credit card balance
by making only the minimum monthly payment! It could happen
if you never miss a payment and live twice the current life
expectancy!

     I hope to hear you on the high frequency bands tomorrow!
So set that clock back one hour and do not be late! If it
glows in the dark, it must be vintage.  Or some very old
Radium tainted paint once used to put your house number on
the mailbox so it would glow and the mailman could see it in
fog, smog, low hanging pollution clouds or a total solar
eclipse! Drivers at night could use it to guess where the
edge of the road was during a snow storm or hangover!  That
paint contained Lead flavored with glow in the dark Radium
phosphors, Strontium 90 and some other stuff since banned by
the EPA, Green Peace and the Pope!  Before we had zip codes,
the mailman could find your mailbox in fog, smog, a white out
or when his glasses were coated with a toxic haze from Lead
Tetraethyl emissions from the tailpipe of the poorly tuned
mail truck!  How? Simply by using the mil surplus geiger
counter mounted where the right headlight used to be!


     If you have never read the interesting and informative
article on the different kinds of 'time' written by myself,
you might do so on the HHI Web Site. Look for: Short-Wave The
Unseen Roadway To The World. Article #1 is titled: à
TIME: PICK A ZONE, ANY ZONE

Original: March 8, 2008. Modified November 5, 2011


Duane Fischer, W8DBF - WPE8CXO
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