In article , "Chic N Pox"
writes:

Were you perchance a Ham-Op in the 80's and early 90's
when the infamous "14.313 Booer Wars" between
KV4FZ's "anti-phone patch" factions and the opposing
Maritime Mobile Net's faction were in full swing..?

It was QUITE a time!

Just about any week night and all weekend long you could
tune to either 14.300 or 14.313 and hear any variety of
catcalls, music, snide comments, foul language, noisemakers,
the infamous "dirty black box" and anything else in-between.
(the way it worked was if the MM Net was on .313 then the
nuts were on .300 and visa-versa) This went on for close
to 12 Years that I was aware of. It became known as the
Ham Radio Comedy Channel and before it ended it drew in
just about every kook from 75 Meters.

Yup = a real black eye for amateur radio.

Guess what Dick...? It turned out that 90% of the WORST
on the air offenders and un-ID'ed stations turned out to be
Hams with Advanced and Extra Class Licensees, most of
of which had held that ticket for 10 or more years duration
and more importantly, at that time one needed to pass a 13 and 20
WPM code test respectively to obtain in the first place!
(...unless of course, you bribed the VEC for your code-credit
which was occuring in parts of the Southeastern USA at the time)

So Dick, please remember that keeping Code WILL NOT
keep the fruitcakes out of the hobby, nor will it bring more stations
into the same.

It won't keep 'em all out, that's for sure.

All of those violators also passed several written tests which included FCC
rules 'n' regs. Those written tests didn't stop 'em though. Shall we dump the
writtens 'cause they're not a perfect filter?

All that "variety of catcalls, music, snide comments, foul language,
noisemakers,
the infamous "dirty black box" and anything else in-between" - what mode were
those folks using? It sure wasn't CW/Morse.

Maybe it's not the code TEST but the code USE which is the filter.

73 de Jim, N2EY.