[Heathkit] Join Sunday Halligan's Hallicrafters Net

[jim unger]

Duane,
    Thanks for the info on the Canadian Duck quazyness! Now I understand why 
there are 6,214 dis-oriented ducks here on the Delaware River!
Besides you, who knew?
--jim (on the Delaware betwixt New Jersey & Pennsylvania)
   Philadelphia, PA

>
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> List Administrator: Duane Fischer, W8DBF        ** For Assistance: 
> dfischer at usol.com **         $$ See the vintage area on the HCI web site - 
> http://www.w9wze.org $$ Heathkit mailing list
> Heathkit at mailman.qth.net
> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/heathkit