[Hammarlund] Saturday HCI Net Or Propagation Puffer?

[Gregory Mengell]

\Hi I need to find OSC  crystal that resides in the shielded can in the
underside of SP600 I rescued the other day.Does anyone have a spare they
would sell?73 Gregory
----- Original Message -----
From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer@usol.com>
To: <hammarlund@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 8:07 PM
Subject: [Hammarlund] Saturday HCI Net Or Propagation Puffer?


>
>
> As always, all flavors of vintage gear are always welcome -
>
> I just read one of those propagation forecasts about band decay and it
made me
> wonder if there is a propagation dentist to fix the cavity in the wisdom
tooth
> of wave stability caused by a failure to floss, flush or Fluoridate
properly?
> What the heck is going on the past month? Has old Sol been on a diet of
refried
> beans, barbecued bacon rinds and pickled hard boiled eggs? If so, that
would
> explain his problem with frequently breaking solar wind and an odor foul
enough
> to gag a starving rodent with a sinus condition who just discovered the
garbage
> dump behind Cuzin Ahab's gormet take out hut that specializes in poached
fish
> heads, pickled Camel humps and deep fried Skunk thighs. All that global
warming
> hype, El Meano, La Ninja, or whatever those terms are, and the national
weather
> service is about as accurate as the average American's monthly bank
checking
> account statement when compared to those numbers on the stub balance
sheets!
> With the lack of sunlight, one can always blame the nearly dead solar
power
> calculator for the blunders. In any event, the jet stream seems confused
as to
> whether it is supposed to be north of the equator, south of the equator or
on
> Spring break in Daytona observing females trying to avoid tan lines.
>
> If there is any useable propagation on Saturday May 10th, there will be a
HCI 40
> meter Net at 1:00 PM EDT, (1700 UTC). If you can tolerate the pungent odor
of
> rotten Hydrogen Sulfide vapors emanating from the south end of north bound
> critters who helped recycle the local fast food restaurant dumpster
contents
> back into the ecology cycle of life, join me at 12:30 PM EDT, (1630 UTC),
for
> the pre-Net fumigation procedure where we rid the frequency of contestors.
(I am
> not against 'contesting', just the lack of ethics aptly demonstrated by
some who
> behave worse than male teenage boys with way too much sperm on uppers!)
The
> frequency will be 7.280 Mhz lsb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and the
sound
> of Goblow The Farting Horse trying to out stink the barking dogs doing
their
> bone marrow curdling rendition of Jingle Bells. But if the smell really
knocks
> your fungus filled sweaty gym socks off, it is probably a misguided AM'er
trying
> to make his rice paddy radio sound like a real vintage vacuum tube AM rig
by
> utilizing all sorts of speech processing devices that change his voice
more than
> a teenager hitting puberty! (Is a rice box radio one that comes in a
breakfast
> cereal like Rice Crispies as a prize? (Just teasing, no dead rats in the
mail
> please))
>
> I hoep to hear some of you tomorrow. As unstable as the band has been, I
will be
> glad to hear any of you! I will gladly take check ins from the outer
planets,
> just be sure to use your regional call sign designator, you know, like
JUP, SAT,
> URN and PLU. Sounds like the cast for a sit com on life in the back woods
of the
> Ozarks! Be there or be lost and doomed to wander shopping malls for all
> eternity.
>
> Duane Fischer, W8DBF
> NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International
>
>
>
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