SV: [AMPS]

Bob & Linda McGraw K4TAX RMcGraw@blomand.net
Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:03:38 -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+. 

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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