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