[Hammarlund] Join Final HCI Sunday Nets

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

All rigs are welcome. Vacuum is prefered, but if it is solid state, fake a hum! 
 
	
If you can take a break from flexing the monetary muscles of those plastic
cards, then drop your shop until you drop buttocks into a heavily padded chair,
warm up those Hallicrafters that still go glow in the dark and let's fry some
snowflakes! It will be today, Sunday December 19th and time for the weekly event
that you all look forward to even more than five fiber free days in a row with
no constipation! The HCI 20 meter Net! Where tubes rule the skies, hot electrons
rule the roost - killing any birds that get off their assigned flight path and
mistake the Hustler 6BTV as a rest stop and become a rump roast with feathers!
You can blow the snow out of the driveway later, it won't leave without you! For
those unfortunate who do not have snow for a White Christmas, you can vacuum the
dust off the poured concrete driveway later with the Hoover. If the dust leaves
without you, well, I guess that is what in scientific terms is known as a 'dirty
trick'! 	
	
The pre-Net will commence at about 12:45 PM EST, (1745 UTC). Now I will be on
the air waving my magic wand over the 9913F coax buried somewhere under the
frozen blanket of glistening white snow in an effort to entice those lethargic
electrons to try to get up to speed and at least equal the velocity factor of
the feedline. It would be nice if they could arrive at the antenna the same day
I transmit them! So if you are so inclined, or maybe reclined, please join me
early at 12:22 PM EST, (1722 UTC) and we will get those temperamental clouds
hanging around in the Ionosphere as if they had not a thing better to do with
their time, motivated with a little swift kick in the old cumulous rumpus with a
HT-33 size footprint!  	
	
The Net proper will begin at 1:15 PM EST, (1815 UTC). So wipe that gravy off
your nose, cram that last half of the fresh baked buttermilk biscuit down the
nutritional intake pipe, do your best Tennessee Tuxedo Penguin waddle into the
Ham shack and throw a handful of change in the parking meter! It's time to get
this radio show on the Ionosphere road! 	
	
The frequency will be 14.293 MHZ USB +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and the
soft soothing seductive sleepy sliding sounds of your life savings vanishing
into an electronic cash register as your wife buys holiday gifts for all of her
compatriots who work in the same office as she does, all two hundred and
forty-eight of them! Then again, maybe it is just the sound of those sparkling
like cheap industrial diamond frosty flakes of acidic moisture that the old
North Wind sprinkles the neighborhood with periodically to hide the urban or
suburban or rural blight of landfills the size of a pregnant Tyrannosaurus Rex!
So rather than get depressed and whack that snowman the grandchildren built over
the top of your bird feeder with the snow shovel, warm up with some hot
chocolate, a hotter than an overdone authentic Spanish taco that somebody put
enough spicy hot sauce in to jump start a dead volcano vintage rig and key that
mike! We will cure that depression, print you some fresh crisp new bills with
the latest desktop publishing contraption and soon have you forgetting all about
that acidic snow that is quietly chewing its way through your roof and into your
attic!      	
	
I hope to hear many of you later today, so please show up and keep the old blind
Magician company. These are the holidays coming up dudes and it gets lonely here
trapped with no other humans to argue politics or play radio with, a beautiful
still alive White Pine Christmas tree with gorgeous decorations depicting the
customs and cultures of many other countries - that I can not even see! - but at
least I do not have to share the UHF wireless remote that turns on the tree's
lights with anyone else, and nobody to give all this fermented rum soaked fruit
cake away to that people keep sending me in the mail! UPS refuses to transport
it because last year too many of their drivers got a buzz from sniffing the
package and customers complained about a Mouse having gotten into the box and
greedily nibbled away!      	
	
Hear you later today! Light up those tubes and let's party! It's Halli time!
Deck those halls, hang that thistletoe stuff and be sure to drink that homemade
eggnog from cousin Rufus! Remember, you can also use it to thin paint or remove
rust from a Hallicrafters chassis!	
	
Duane Fischer, W8DBF	
NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International	
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