[Hammarlund] Tune In For The Halli 20 Meter Sunday Net

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Hi All,

Please join us on Sunday January 23rd for the Hallicrafters
20 meter Net. If you are not using Hallicrafters, or another
make/model of vintage rig, join us anyhow! If you are
interested in those wonders that still go glow in the dark,
you are more than welcome!

The Pre-Net is from 12:30 PM EST, or 1730 UTC, until 1:00 PM
EST, or 1800 UTC.

The HHI (Halligan's Hallicrafters International) Net is from
1:00 PM EST, or 1800 UTC, until 2:00 PM EST, or 1900 UTC.

The frequency is still 14.293 MHZ USB +/- for key clicks,
mike splatter and loose lips that chatter like a skeleton
with loose dentures on Halloween night!

Join us and share some facts, funny tales, a few fibs from
the swap meet and even some technical tips. You will learn
something, that I can guarantee, but as to what you will
learn, that is yet to be determined!

Here is hoping to hear you tomorrow and QSO despite the
atmospheric noises, Dinosaur rump wide splattering rigs,
Ionospheric snaps - crackles -pops and someone somewhere
tuning up what sounds like a fifty KW rig! In any event, join
us for a good time sharing some tales from yesteryear, some
technical tips to make an ill rig revive again and the pure
joy of sharing those wonders that still go glow in the dark
without a Radium implant! Hear you tomorrow -

Duane, W8DBF


Yo Humans!

It is I. Frogzilla. I come bearing bad tidings of great joy.  So stop 
stuffing
your chubby cheeks with that sea food from a fast fat roll place poisoned by
preservatives used by the ancient Egyptians to preserve their dead Kings and
pets, and listen up! And that goes for you vegetarians stuffing down the
buttered squash and blanched lima beans too! If you think that diet is going
to keep you from getting more wrinkles than a sun dried California prune,
think again! What you will get is the look of an over pruned Philodendron 
with
too
little water and way too much chlorophyll! Croak!

I am working my webbed toes off trying to defrost the blind dude who got
unusually stupid, thought he was a hearty Norse Arctic explorer and ventured
out in a howling blizzard on a quest to get his daily dose of junk mail. 
Well,
at least that is what his family thought.

Actually, his Braille edition of Playboy was delivered and he was determined
to retrieve it before the snow, sleet or thieving neighborhood teenage boys
destroyed the magazine. A noble, but incredibly dumb gesture.  He made it 
out
to
the mailbox, a distance of eighty-five feet, or twenty-six meters for the
normal math impaired, and was half way back when he froze up solid in mid
stride like a piston rod in a four cycle snow blower engine that somebody
forgot to put oil
in! We found him face down in the swirling snow stiffer than an over 
starched
bra with that patented goofy smirk of his frozen on his lips. His White Cane
was impaled in a snow drift like a flag pole planted by explorers claiming 
the
North Pole for Santa Claus. There was enough frost on his tinted shades to
keep Jack Frost busy etching designs for two decades!

Oh yes. Let me add this lest somebody out there in Ham Land
is wondering how some dude who is totally blind enjoys a Playboy magazine 
and
starts shouting that the blind wonder is a fake!  Back in the seventies the
Congress approved federal funding for the conversion of Playboy magazine 
into
a Braille version.  What about the famous Playboy centerfold or those other
provocative photos?  A let your fingers do the walking tactile version? Heck
no! The blind get only the text, no photos!  Now if Congress granted federal
tax dollars to produce an equal opportunity version of Playboy that the 
blind
could enjoy, does it not seem discriminatory to deprive them of the graphics
said magazine is famous for?  Hey! The technology exists to convert
photographic images into thermoform raised line reproductions or even
'talking' tactile drawings! So if Congress is going to spend our tax dollars
to provide 'equal opportunities' for the handicapped, then why not include 
the
best part of the Playboy magazine, the photos of the chicks!  Sort of like
inviting a blind friend over for breakfast when you are having Rice 
Crispies.
You don't want the blind guy slopping milk on your clean tablecloth, so you
don't give him a spoon to eat with! You just let him sit there and listen to
the "Snap, Crackle and Pop!"

Think about this. Who do you know that actually reads the articles published
in Playboy magazine? The only people reading those articles are blind males
who are sick of Readers Digest and Newsweek!

I was about to crack the Double Bubble gum seal on his Last Will And
Testament, when the paramedics announced he still had a pulse. I really 
wanted
to know if he willed me the frog pond or if I was going to have to become a
real estate
agent and swindle his relatives out of it. Besides his grandson Brandon was
threatening to carve me into frog fillets with his Swiss army knife and boil
my green hide in a Long John Slivers deep fryer filled with used motor oil.

If they can get the blind dude defrosted in time, the Saturday February 22nd
HHI 40 meter Net will commence with the pre-Net at 12:30 PM EST, (1730 UTC).
The Net proper at 1:00 PM EST, (1800 UTC). If you can't read a watch, get
creative, call the local number to get the time on your landline! Croak! The
frequency will be 7.280 Mhz lsb and I don't give a Lizard's rump scales if I
have to key the mike
myself and sing Happy Birthday to old George Washington in frog part 
harmony.
That is enough to curdle the water in any swamp and if the humans squatting 
on
the frequency don't get the hint to move, I will fire up this big linear
amplifier under the operating desk and blow the front end out of their solid
state rice roasters!

So join us, if you can, and we will have some fun helping old George eat his
English crumb cake topped with cherries from the tree he chopped down, wash 
it
down with some White Lightning from those hills of Tennessee and let Bill
Halligan, Sr. know that he may be gone from the third rock from old Sol, but
he ain't forgotten! Croak!

And if the USAF needs some hot missles to cool down that
dude in Iraq with bad gas, we've got hundreds of these flaming candles to
dispose of somewhere anyhow! Guaranteed to give any Camel a hot hump! Croak!


Frogzilla


Original: February 22, 2003  George Washington's birthday!


Duane Fischer, W8DBF - WPE8CXO
E-Mail: dfischer at usol.com
Hallicrafters web site: www.w9wze.net
HHRP web site: hhrp.w9wze.net