[Hammarlund] NWS To Seed D Layer For Halli Sunday Net!

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

You are always welcome on the HHI Nets regardless of the brand or flavor!

Please park the GPS guided self-propelled Pooper Snooper Scouper and declare

your yard a temporary compost site. Forget mowing the stragley strands of

yellowish green grass, buy some Sheep and save money by not buying gas for

the yard tractor. Hang up that yard leaf rake before you have more spinal

hangups then towels in a drip dry laundrymat. It is Sunday April 27th and

time for us lovers of things that still go glow in the dark to drift into

the Halligan's Hallicrafters International, (HHI), 20 meter Net! Work will

wait, but those waves we wander won't!

The Pre-Net portion commences at 12:45 PM EST/EDT, (1645 UTC). Remember that

old, and I mean really OLD, southern gospel song entitled "Turn Your Radio

On"? Last Sunday one of you played about thirty-eight seconds of it exactly

when the HHI Pre-Net was due to shake, rattle and roll the electrons in the

Ionosphere. I do not know who it was, but do us a favor. Get the version

done by Ray Stevens in the seventies! Now that version could awaken or

revive to alive a dead Hallicrafters S-38C that got French kissed on the

cabinet by a forklift! More flat than a stack of pancakes the circus fat

lady sat on! So please play Ray and then Turn Your Radio On OM!

Now if there is some deeply personal reason you do not wish to share with

humanity, you can sneak in and QSO with me as I tweek and tune my gear from

12:20 PM EST/EDT, (1620 UTC), and pretend that those listening will turn a

deaf ear to what is said. So if you feel the need, go for it!

The Net proper starts at 1:15 PM EST/EDT, (1715 UTC) with no fanfare or

commercial messages.

The frequency will be 14.293 MHZ usb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and a

caffeine powered QSO Party somewhere with lips chattering like dirty

contacts on a TR relay! Now if possible, we slide down toward 14.292 MHZ to

escape some of the spurious splatter from eighteen wheelers running more

power then many MW commercial stations do, who also just happen to be

illegally close to us. So seek and ye shall find us between 14.292 and

14.293, give or take a HZ.

So drift on by tomorrow and share your latest repair trick, vacuum tube

adoption or parts crisis with us. It does not have to be a Hallicrafters, as

long as it, or you, glow! If it doesn't glow, just keep your lips zipped and

nobody will know you are sneaking in the backdoor with a solid state shape

shifter! Hear you tomorrow.



Duane Fischer, W8DBF - WPE8CXO
E-Mail: dfischer at usol.com

Hallicrafters web site: www.w9wze.net

HHRP web site: hhrp.w9wze.net