[Heathkit] Join Sunday Halligan's Hallicrafters Net

[john]

Lazarus returns! Who would have guessed it?

John




At 01:21 AM 8/20/2006, Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:


>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.
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>The pre-Net commences at 12:45 PM EDT, (1645 UTC). The Net proper starts at
>1:15 PM EDT, (1715 UTC).
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>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.
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>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.
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>Hear you tomorrow!
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>Duane Fischer, W9WZE
>Halligan's Hallicrafters
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