[Hammarlund] Join HCI Saturday Net And Play In May

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Please take a little time out of your busy Saturday May 21st schedule to join us
on the Hallicrafters Collectors International 40 meter Net.		
	
It will commence at 12:30 PM EDT, (1630 UTC) with the pre-Net portion. 	
	
The Net proper will start at 1:00 PM EDT, (1700 UTC). 	
	
The frequency will be 7.280 MHZ lsb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and the
uninhibited sounds of my neighborhood giving you the impression that I am doing
a live remote from the Scotch Pine woods to my south not far from the residence
of that amphibian, the protector of all non-human things that still go glow in
the dark, Frogzilla! Well, although I never planned, or even had a milliseconds
worth of desire, to do a live remote from my backyard, those tuning in will be
hard to convince otherwise.    	
	
Remember me mentioning the neighbor's large eight inch diameter tree limb that
extended over their splintered split rail fence and hovered above my backyard
like a drunken Vulture who thought my white shed was a public Avery pit stop?
The Easter
Sunday snow storm that had caused it to  break and have a close encounter of the
12 gauge
solid Copper wire kind? How the tremendous weight of that big limb that laid
down upon my 150 foot SW longwire to take a rest, had pulled the lag bolts right
out of the side of my ranch style home where the metal braket was to hold the
thirty foot TV tower upright. The steel tower was actually bent at the base and
leaning toward the south at a 30 degree angle! As the limb pushed the longwire
from twenty-five feet high down to the ground, the seven year old TV beam
somehow was struck and mangled like spaghetti a three year old attack with a
fork!    	
	
I hired a TV tower guy I know to effect repairs on what was left of it, another
guy to exercise his chainsaw to cut up the huge branch and somebody else to
patch up the various areas of my house, shed and yard. Apparently when this TV
tower was first errected in 1976, a second steel bracket securing it to my
house, had been fastened to the roof rafters by some very long steel bolts. What
nobody realized as they tried to push the leaning TV tower back to a vertical
position was that the tremendous force that bent the tower and broke the lag
bolts off had also damaged the rafters on the east end of my home, right over
the Ham shack! This resulted in a section of my roof collapsing inwards,
decorating my beautiful blue velvet bed spread with dry wall that was formerly
the cieling! Hence I now have an open skylight for plenty of natural sunlight or
moonlight, lots of fresh air, neighborhood racket, an expressway with no speed
limit for any insect capable of flying and an insurance company with enough egg
on its face to feed every hungry child in this country!   	
	
I do have a nice piece of Bisquene, or however you spell it, covering the
opening, but it is about as effective in keeping things out as a backdoor with a
screen in it that your grand kids took turns poking pencils through! So ignore
the thunderous teenage generated car stereo noise, pay no attention to my new
neighbors nextdoor cursing in whatever tongue they speak, the dogs barking, the
cats meowing, the birds singing off key due to drinking the water in my birdbath
they put bleach in to kill the fungus that had started to grow and some blind
dude accidentally muttering a word deemed inappropriate for on the air use, such
as "solid state". Join me, and keep me occupied while the repair wagon rolls up
the driveway and plugs the gap in my roof with a large cork! 	
	
Duane Fischer, W8DBF	
NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International		
netcontrol at w9wze.org
HCI: http://www.w9wze.org