[Hammarlund] Glow In The Dark

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

       Radium Gum Makes More Glow Than Just Your Smile!


                                  By Duane B. Fischer, W8DBF


Stay tuned for a news flash hotter than old Sol when he gets
belchosphere hot flashes and burps ferocious fiery flames
that melt the very core of Mercury as that mythological fleet
of foot winged warrior beats feet for the firewall!

Meanwhile, back at the pond that Frogzilla made famous by
hurling himself off a wildly swaying Hustler 6BTV and making
a gigantic splash in the Ham world five years ago, a splash
that still has ripples foaming at the shoreline beckoning the
brave of spirit to venture into Davey Jones locker to find
the Collins R-390a receivers that were buried at sea by a
United States aircraft carrier in 1988 in the Caribbean
somewhere off the coast of ...

Join the HCI Saturday 40 meter Net and learn things your
mother never dared to tell you. About why your little sister
glows in the dark and made enough money leasing herself out
on Halloween night to haunted houses as Casper's cousin,
Jasper The Giggling Girl Ghost to pay her first two years of
college! Why the family pet mysteriously vanished one
Thanksgiving day after licking the glowing green foamy goo
stuff off the iridescent white Jello salad made from a recipe
found in the 'Area 51 Nutritional Guide For Aliens'. Or why
your Uncle Rufus Fungusfoot was arrested by the FBI for
allegedly using Class C common fireworks without a permit
when he charged people a buck each at a July 4th Moose Lodge
rump roast dinner to watch him spit glowing colored balls
into the night sky like a human Roman Candle while he made
his skeleton light up like a x-ray!

Remember those little trinkets we got in the jumbo box of
Fruit Hoops? The ones that if you held them near a bright
light for a minute or so and then put them in a dark place
they glowed with some strange mystical energy? Your Timelux
wrist watch you could see while zipped tight in your sleeping
bag? Those pieces of 'real' green cheese from the Moon we
mailed two .90% Silver quarters and five Shucks Mr. Peanut
wrappers for? That unearthly greenish yellow glow that was
like way cool? It was Radium! They are telling us that it is
going to kill all of us some day before we reach ninety-eight
years of age. You can get in on the class action lawsuit,
just watch the Lawyer Channel and write down the toll free
number for Luminescent Louie.

Join the HCI pre-Net at 12:45 PM EST, (1745 UTC) and the Net
proper at 1:00 PM EST, (1800 UTC). The frequency will be
7.280 MHZ lsb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and Gary 'Mr.
Parts' Brown on his super Maine bullhorn pitching his latest
parts acquisitions at prices you may sprain your arm grabbing
for your PayPal card! Gary is a good guy, truly, and if you
need parts, he is the man! But you must be on the frequency
for the HCI 40 meter Net in order to hear him all the way
from Maine, must be the propagation, heh?  (snicker)

Join us and let's make those wonders that still go glow in
the dark come alive and fill that vacuum the way that only a
pair of 6146's can.  Hear you on Saturday November 5th! Be
there!


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