Kevin Alfred Strom speaks about the Great Liberty Net
 

3950 and the Liberty Net

There are a few facets of amateur radio that have attracted me enough
to induce me to participate in them. One of those is the Liberty Net
and the related discussions that take place on or around 3950 kHz lower
sideband.
So many amateur contacts are empty and meaningless, an exchange of
signal reports or technical descriptions of the most rudimentary sort.
Such is seldom the case for the discussions that take place on 3950.

Every Saturday night at 9:00 PM Central Time, the Liberty Net begins
and usually runs until the wee hours of the morning. W1WCR, Victor
Misek, is the net control operator, and his commanding signal spans the
continent and beyond with perfect intelligibility. In addition, Vic's
array of Beverage antennas (he is the author of the Beverage Antenna
Handbook) allows him to receive signals through noise and interference
that would stymie most operators, and relay important information to
the rest of the net participants.

The Liberty Net is a formal current events discussion net, taking on
political and social issues usually distorted or covered up by the
controlled mass media, and has been in operation for three decades. Any
amateur willing to follow net protocol is welcome to join. You need not
agree with other participants. The only stations not welcome on the net
are a few inveterate jammers who have made themselves obnoxious by
purposely interfering with the frequency on numerous occasions.

The Liberty Net operates formally only on Saturday evenings, but almost
every evening you will hear some of the Net participants engaging in
informal, free-spirited, and free-thinking discussions of important
issues on the frequency. When intentional interference is present,
sometimes the participants shift to 3953, 3947, 3947.5, 3950 USB, or
other nearby frequencies.

Sadly, there are some sick individuals who spend a great deal of their
time trying to prevent the legitimate operators from having these
conversations. In some cases, they claim to be "outraged" by the
legitimate participants' non-PC opinions. But regardless of their
justifications, there is no legal sanction for the intentional
interference created by these radio outlaws. This they have engaged in
by transmitting music, noise tapes, tape loops or recordings of
previous conversations or comments, monologues, obscenities, and other
illegal interference. While there are a few unidentified jammers, the
major sources of illegal interference are well known: WA9KJI, K5BLB,
W9ART, K5ZU (now dead), K5MVK and KK7HO have engaged in malicious
interference which is documented in a series of .wav file sound
recordings linked here. There are many more recordings than the ones I
have digitized and made available here. Some of these are archived at
the FRG9600 web site.

Until 1992, when WA9KJI began jamming in earnest, 3950 was a relatively
peaceful 75-meter frequency where iconoclasts and traditionalists of
many non-establishment worldviews could have intellectual, religious,
political and philosophical discussions. It was unique. It was the
highest-IQ frequency on amateur radio. It still is, when the moronic
jammers with their filthy language and noise-maker tapes are absent.

I have come to the conclusion that for many (though not all) of the
jammers, their objection to the regular 3950 participants is not mainly
political or philosophical, but merely that the conversation is so far
above their heads that they feel inferior -- and they have a yen to
destroy whatever is superior to themselves, if they think they can get
away with it.

They are similar to the animated garbage who throw rocks through the
windows of cathedrals or museums or great mansions because even the
street curs' dim consciousness can comprehend that these grand
buildings are cultural manifestations of a world that they can never be
a part of -- and they hate that, passionately.


Kevin, WB4AIO.

KEVIN A STROM
PO BOX 762
Earlysville VA 22936
USA

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