From the ARRL Letter:

"The FCC has ordered that David Edward Cox, W5OER, of Pride,
Louisiana, be stripped of his Technician class Amateur Radio
license. In October 2005, the FCC sent Cox an Order to Show Cause to
initiate a hearing proceeding to determine if Cox, who's serving
time on several felony convictions, possessed the requisite
character to remain an FCC licensee or should face license
revocation. The FCC says Cox failed to respond to the show-cause
order. A Commission administrative law judge subsequently concluded
that Cox had waived his right to a hearing, terminated the
proceeding and released an Order of Revocation December 4."

Other details on the ARRL website.

FCC has been using its 1990 "Character Order" against amateurs
convicted of felonies and some other violations for several years now.
Basically it comes down to whether a person convicted of a serious
nonradio violation can be trusted to hold an FCC license grant.

73 de Jim, N2EY

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Here's another, somewhat similar view:



Hello, Jim, Dave, Steve, Dee, and Len. No write to for a long time! I
hope I find everyone well and happy.

A humble request if I may?

Would there be any possibility of trimming the groups these posts get sent
to? Certainly these are unusual topics to be appearing in rec.radio.amateur
antenna and the other unrelated groups.

The folks I have plonked out certainly won't cease the practice, in
fact I just invite more of it with this post. But I can't imagine that you
good folk would ever intend to be part of the massive and perverted
crossposting metastasis that has been going on for the past several months.

But your names sometimes show up along with the sewage, just thought I'd
let you know. 8^)


- 73 de Mike KB3EIA -

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@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

From the ARRL Letter:

"The FCC has ordered that David Edward Cox, W5OER, of Pride,
Louisiana, be stripped of his Technician class Amateur Radio
license. In October 2005, the FCC sent Cox an Order to Show Cause to
initiate a hearing proceeding to determine if Cox, who's serving
time on several felony convictions, possessed the requisite
character to remain an FCC licensee or should face license
revocation. The FCC says Cox failed to respond to the show-cause
order. A Commission administrative law judge subsequently concluded
that Cox had waived his right to a hearing, terminated the
proceeding and released an Order of Revocation December 4."

Other details on the ARRL website.

FCC has been using its 1990 "Character Order" against amateurs
convicted of felonies and some other violations for several years now.
Basically it comes down to whether a person convicted of a serious
nonradio violation can be trusted to hold an FCC license grant.

73 de Jim, N2EY



A check on the FCC web site shows the license is still valid. W5OER was
listed to another individual but expired in 1998. W5OER is now a vanity
call sign assigned to Mr. Cox. Aside from an address change in July of
2004 there have been no status changes attached to this call sign.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
-- Mark Twain

73 de Marc N9LCP