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From: 2@vc.net (measures)
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 19:08:09 -0700
>
>Is this CHILDRENS BAND crap still going on?  Yes, it's the Childrens
>Band as it sounds like a bunch of immature adolescents that have
>attained the age of 20+. 

*  The sins of the fathers are visited upon the children --  Henrik 
Ibsen.  
>
>Bob K4TAX
>
>Wt8r@aol.com wrote:
>> 
>> In a message dated 6/27/00 10:52:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>> phil@invest.fsbusiness.co.uk writes:
>> 
>> >
>> >  Mike,
>> >
>> >  I am normally a lurker on this reflector learning a lot from the regular
>> >  posters. However just have to throw my 2c, I mean 2p worth in as I was
>> >  recently the guest of the gentleman you know of as 'CBer extraordinair'
>> >  while on a very recent visit to a hamfest near Tyler, Texas.
>> >
>> >  He is licensed, he is a gentleman and knows far more about high power
>> >  amplifier construction than I will ever know. I think they call it
>> >  getting your hands dirty.
>> >  >We do not take kindly to people who break the law in America.  CBers 
here
>> >  >(many of them) not only break the law by running illegal power but they
>> > boast
>> >  >about it.
>> >  In my 20+ years as an amateur operator I know for sure that power output
>> >  rules go to pot when either the 'going gets tough' or 'the contest
>> >  begins'.
>> >
>> >  Why, I know a local NFD operator that has a brace of 3CX3000A7 mono-band
>> >  amp's that are run at somewhat more than the UK's allowed 400w out!
>> >  >This so-called "CBer Extraordinare", who is NOT a licensed amateur even
>> >  >though he claims to be, has the timerity to get on a reflector which is
>> >  >ostensibly for licensed amateurs and boast that he has an amplifier
>> capable
>> >
>> >  >of exceeding not only the CB power limit (5 w.), but egregiously exceed
>> the
>> >
>> >  >1,500 w limit imposed on LICENSED amateurs.
>> >  >
>> >  >When I called his boast to the attention of Mr. Riley Hollingsworth, the
>> > new
>> >  >"enforcer" for the FCC, this Jeff Wolf non-licensed character, reacted 
as
>> > any
>> >  >criminal would act.  He denied his wrong-doing and spewed forth foul
>> > language
>> >  >and baseless charges, vituperation and acrimony towards any who dare 
call
>> > him
>> >  >on his scofflaw behavior.
>> >  >
>> >  >I, and others dare this CBer to produce his bona-fide amateur license.
>> He
>> >  >ain't got one, 10-4?
>> >  And if he should offer his call, what then?
>> >
>> >  Let's get back to discussing amplifiers.
>> >
>> >  Phil  G4ZOW
>> >
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>> I have a REAL problem with people who get on an international list 
>ANONYMOUSLY
>>  and make PROVOCATIVE statements and then say, There is nothing you can do 
to
>> me because you don't know who I am and I am not reading any more mail from
>> you. Kiss off.  If a person has the brass to say something, they should be
>> willing to stand up and be recognized.
>> 
>> Why would a person who has nothing to hide adopt an ANONYMOUS moniker
>> especially associated with CB?  and then take the moronic position that
>> "there is no controlling authority" which requires him to identify himself.
>> This is the modus operandi of a kidnapper.
>> 
>> Hey, if Mr. Gizmo wants to be know as a CBer, that is certainly his 
>privilege.
>> 
>> Dave, WT8R
>> 
>> 
>> 
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-  Rich..., 805.386.3734, www.vcnet.com/measures.  
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