[Hammarlund] Join Halligan's Hallicrafters Net Sunday

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Tomorrow is Sunday August 20th and time for the Halligan's Hallicrafters 20
meter Net. Saturday the propagation sucked like an old Hoover with a worn
thin rubber drive belt that slipped more than a graphite greased Ham on a
freshly surfaced ice rink!  No matter as we normally have an adequate supply
of relay stations to hear you and hollar at me.

The pre-Net commences at 12:45 PM EDT, (1645 UTC). The Net proper starts at
1:15 PM EDT, (1715 UTC).

The frequency will be 14.293 MHZ usb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and
the sound of confused ducks doing touch and dump runs! Just as regular as
the Timex that takes a kicking and keeps on ticking, the ducks show up every
day. Now some of the winged creatures has a tiny bit of Iron Ferite in their
brain that serves as a magnetic compass. They use it to locate magnetic
North and then use their built-in road atlas to plot their flight path for
the Winter.

I think these Canadian ducks are a little coordinate confused. It is not
normal for them to make these practice runs daily for two weeks! I suspect
that with all the magnetic forces and fields polluting the planet, that
these poor ducks can't get a bearing due to RFI. Think about all of those
computer chips in your QTH and each one with its own RF field. The poor
quackers don't know their beak from their butt, literally! Not to worry
though! Some animal preservationist will have some Choppers dispatched  and
each of the ducks snatched out of the air, packed into a special crate with
central air, small microwave oven, refrigerator keyed to their distinctive
beak print, special flight/fright harness that keeps the southern end of
their body positioned over the self-cleaning Laser porta-pot and special
molded to their skulls stereo headphones so they can listen to the latest
edition of Field And Stream and the CD with the nature sounds of home.

Hear you tomorrow!

Duane Fischer, W9WZE
Halligan's Hallicrafters