robert casey wrote:
Didn't think this could happen; someone operating
Morse code violating the rules....

Sure it can happen! It's just very rare, that's all.

When's the last time (before KC0AB) that a ham
*operating Morse Code* got into that much trouble with FCC?


from the ARRL web site newsletters:
http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter/05/0218/

The FCC has affirmed a $4000 fine for Paul D. Westcott,
KC0OAB, of Purdy, Missouri, for "willful and repeated
failure to respond to Commission requests for information
about his station." The Commission released a
Forfeiture Order in the case on February 16. The FCC reports
it has received "numerous complaints" alleging that KC0OAB
for several months now has been transmitting CW "24 hours a
day, 7 days a week" on 7.030 MHz. While complainants assert
the transmissions constitute broadcasting, the FCC
contends they interfere with other amateur communications
"due to an apparent lack of station control."

The guy has his station set up to send Bible verses 24/7.
Claims it's "code practice", and maybe it is.

The violation isn't for his on-air behavior, but for his
refusal to respond to repeated FCC requests for
information.

I've heard the guy, and I don't consider what he does to
be interference. But he should have responded to FCC long
long ago.

73 de Jim, N2EY

I recall many times -- one guy sent a four letter word over and over again
in CW with no ID -- local Hams found him turned him in
Gee what was he thinking -- no ID and obsentities - probably had TVI too
(;-(

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Help The New Hams
Someone Helped You
Or did You Forget That ?



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robert casey wrote:
Didn't think this could happen; someone operating
Morse code violating the rules....

Sure it can happen! It's just very rare, that's all.

When's the last time (before KC0AB) that a ham
*operating Morse Code* got into that much trouble with FCC?


from the ARRL web site newsletters:
http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter/05/0218/

The FCC has affirmed a $4000 fine for Paul D. Westcott,
KC0OAB, of Purdy, Missouri, for "willful and repeated
failure to respond to Commission requests for information
about his station." The Commission released a
Forfeiture Order in the case on February 16. The FCC reports
it has received "numerous complaints" alleging that KC0OAB
for several months now has been transmitting CW "24 hours a
day, 7 days a week" on 7.030 MHz. While complainants assert
the transmissions constitute broadcasting, the FCC
contends they interfere with other amateur communications
"due to an apparent lack of station control."

The guy has his station set up to send Bible verses 24/7.
Claims it's "code practice", and maybe it is.

The violation isn't for his on-air behavior, but for his
refusal to respond to repeated FCC requests for
information.

I've heard the guy, and I don't consider what he does to
be interference. But he should have responded to FCC long
long ago.

73 de Jim, N2EY

Caveat Lector wrote:
I recall many times -- one guy sent a four letter word over and over
again
in CW with no ID -- local Hams found him turned him in
Gee what was he thinking -- no ID and obsentities - probably had TVI
too
(;-(

When was that?

73 de Jim, N2EY

--
Caveat Lector (Reader Beware)
Help The New Hams
Someone Helped You
Or did You Forget That ?



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robert casey wrote:
Didn't think this could happen; someone operating
Morse code violating the rules....

Sure it can happen! It's just very rare, that's all.

When's the last time (before KC0AB) that a ham
*operating Morse Code* got into that much trouble with FCC?


from the ARRL web site newsletters:
http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter/05/0218/

The FCC has affirmed a $4000 fine for Paul D. Westcott,
KC0OAB, of Purdy, Missouri, for "willful and repeated
failure to respond to Commission requests for information
about his station." The Commission released a
Forfeiture Order in the case on February 16. The FCC reports
it has received "numerous complaints" alleging that KC0OAB
for several months now has been transmitting CW "24 hours a
day, 7 days a week" on 7.030 MHz. While complainants assert
the transmissions constitute broadcasting, the FCC
contends they interfere with other amateur communications
"due to an apparent lack of station control."

The guy has his station set up to send Bible verses 24/7.
Claims it's "code practice", and maybe it is.

The violation isn't for his on-air behavior, but for his
refusal to respond to repeated FCC requests for
information.

I've heard the guy, and I don't consider what he does to
be interference. But he should have responded to FCC long
long ago.

73 de Jim, N2EY

About 1982 in San Jose, CA area
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Caveat Lector wrote:
I recall many times -- one guy sent a four letter word over and over
again
in CW with no ID -- local Hams found him turned him in
Gee what was he thinking -- no ID and obsentities - probably had TVI
too
(;-(

When was that?

73 de Jim, N2EY

Caveat Lector wrote:
About 1982 in San Jose, CA area
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So we get a serious (?) enforcement action for hams using CW every
decade or so. Compared to how many for other modes?

73 de Jim, N2EY



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Caveat Lector wrote:
I recall many times -- one guy sent a four letter word over and
over
again
in CW with no ID -- local Hams found him turned him in
Gee what was he thinking -- no ID and obsentities - probably had
TVI
too
(;-(

When was that?

73 de Jim, N2EY

wrote:
Caveat Lector wrote:
I recall many times -- one guy sent a four letter word over and
over
again
in CW with no ID -- local Hams found him turned him in
Gee what was he thinking -- no ID and obsentities - probably had
TVI
too
(;-(

When was that?

73 de Jim, N2EY

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There's always been "monkey business" here and there in the "CW bands".
The notion held by some that the CW bands are some sort of pristine
Radio Nirvana where there are no sinners is complete nonsense and/or
wishful thinking. Go all the way back to the 1950s around 3.505 and
thereabouts on cold midnites when one could almost hear all the guys
listening for some DX to pop up. Got tiresome but we hung in. On any
number of occasions some bush-league miscreant would get tired of
listening to the noise floor and just for the hell of it would decide
to generate a pileup. I dunno how many times I worked "6L6GB". "QSL
via the buro". Yeah, right. The W9 buro. Even Jack VE1ZZ the Lord High
Commissioner of 80M dxing couldn't resist jumping into those frays if
they were really good ones.

w3rv

wrote:

There's always been "monkey business" here and there in the "CW
bands".
The notion held by some that the CW bands are some sort of pristine
Radio Nirvana where there are no sinners is complete nonsense and/or
wishful thinking. Go all the way back to the 1950s around 3.505 and
thereabouts on cold midnites when one could almost hear all the guys
listening for some DX to pop up. Got tiresome but we hung in. On any
number of occasions some bush-league miscreant would get tired of
listening to the noise floor and just for the hell of it would decide
to generate a pileup. I dunno how many times I worked "6L6GB". "QSL
via the buro". Yeah, right. The W9 buro. Even Jack VE1ZZ the Lord
High
Commissioner of 80M dxing couldn't resist jumping into those frays if
they were really good ones.

w3rv

Welp, there you have it.

I dunno how many times I worked "6L6GB". "QSL
via the buro". Yeah, right.

ROTFLMAO!


You probably did work someone who had a 6L6GB vacuum tube
final in his transmitter....... :-)

Others:
6u6gt
6w6gt
6w4gta
6y6ga
6k5gt
6k8gt
6j5gt
6a8gt
5z4gt
5x4ga
5r4gyb
5u4gb
3q5gt
2w3gt

robert casey wrote:
I dunno how many times I worked "6L6GB". "QSL
via the buro". Yeah, right.

ROTFLMAO!


You probably did work someone who had a 6L6GB vacuum tube
final in his transmitter....... :-)

No doubt. But most of the serious 80M dxers in those days ran "suds", a
lotta power, not just a lotta power but 'WAY too much power. Back then
the max allowable power was one kW input vs. today's 1.5kW output. Any
number of the Really Big Guns used homebrewed amps which tossed out a
kilowatt's worth of heat alone. Or more. And those beasts weren't lossy
linears either. Which is another example of blatent "impurity" in the
CW bands. Offhand I'd be willing to bet that there are far fewer
instances of busting the power limits today than there were back then.
The FCC took the easy way out of having to bother with enforcing the
power limits by roughly tripling the max allowable power input, clever
labor-avoiding folk that they are. That move plus economics, the drying
up of the WW2 parts sources and the need for linear amps have "solved"
the excesss power problem and brought most of those bad old boys and
their descendants into "compliance" today.


Others:
6u6gt
6w6gt
6w4gta
6y6ga
6k5gt
6k8gt
6j5gt
6a8gt
5z4gt
5x4ga
5r4gyb
5u4gb
3q5gt
2w3gt

"Tube callsigns" were a favorite but there were others and some were a
tad on the raunchy side. 4Q2?? showed up more than once. Whatever it
took to get some giggles.

w3rv

No doubt. But most of the serious 80M dxers in those days ran "suds", a
lotta power, not just a lotta power but 'WAY too much power. Back then
the max allowable power was one kW input vs. today's 1.5kW output.

Have heard what is likely an urban legend of a ham (who was
also a broadcast chief engineer) using the 50KW AM transmitter in his
charge to work some rare DX on some HF ham band. Late at
night when it was off for maintenance. Seems unlikely as the
power amp would have circuits tuned for the MW AM broadcast
station's frequency and low pass filters to block harmonics
in the SW spectrum. That's not something one can modify
in a few minutes.

Oh, you could connect a ham transceiver to the broadcast
antenna tower to work some 160m DX, but that would be
legal.