RHF wrote:
On Oct 24, 4:17 pm, Bill Baka wrote:
RHF wrote:
When I lived in St Louis, there were a couple of guys with base
stations, who pretty much signed on and parked on a channel,
chatting all night. Got to be a fairly common occurrence. ****ed off
a guy in St Charles, who had an old Collins he'd brought up to 11
Meters, and put a Yagi up on top of a huge tower out behind his
house. He had an EchoPlex in his audio chain, and apparently a mixer
with several mic and line level sources. He was moderately
entertaining for about 5 minutes, and then got very tiresome, very
quickly. It took about 2 years for someone to finally take him out.
And it wasn't FCC. They were clamping down elsewhere in the area. A
couple of local operators found his base, and took his tower down
for him.
- Heh,
- Reminds me of they guy around here who had a kilowatt or more and
got so
- dead drunk he passed out with a face plant on his transmit key on
his
- base station power mike and fried it overnight.
- Sometimes Karma does get you.
-
- Bill Baka

He Fried his Face on a Power Mike :
Now that must have left a lasting imprint ;-}
.
It did when he had to repair it all. We had relative peace and quiet for
about 2 months then he came back on. His next move was to tell the feds
to get the hell offa his channel, which was about 26 MHz with the
VCO/slider setup he had. He went off the air permanently in about 2
days. They triangulated his house and the rest is history.

Bill Baka