[SCCC] Kalifornia Kilowatts...

[Henryk SM0JHF]

A small correction re: Herb, KV4FZ
it was a decade later, not 20 years, when his FCC licence was re-issued.

On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 at 20:18, Dana Roode <dana.roode at gmail.com> wrote:

> Herb was KV4FZ, passed away in 2020 -
> https://www.arrl.org/news/view/top-band-stalwart-herb-schoenbohm-kv4fz-sk
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 10:50 AM Steve Harrison <k0xp at k0xp.com> wrote:
>
> > So.... Just what was the usual federal penalty for being found running
> > "over-power" (or even "out-of-band")?? $10,000 fine, $25,000... what? I
> > don't recall anyone being jailed. And that must not have been considered
> > a felony, or the ham would have been banned from life to ever hold
> > another license. I know several were convicted of misbehavior of one
> > sort or another such as deliberate interference and the like; Herb
> > Schoenbeck, KV4AA (long-ago SK), was notorious for that back in the '70s
> > or so; but that's another whole topic.
> >
> > Was anybody ever actually banned from a contest for over-power, or
> > merely disqualified and perhaps "suspended" from the next contest?
> >
> > Come to think of it... I've never heard any such similar stories of the
> > NCCC-area W6's; but surely, those guys were not all lily-white.... or
> > were they... I know of at least two of them with tubes with handles
> > today but don't know about back then.
> >
> > Steve, K0XP
> >
> >
> > On 7/3/2024 9:54 AM, Tree wrote:
> > > A couple of things to add.
> > >
> > > Heard stories about a strategy to defeat the FCC field strength
> > measurement
> > > which was to have a vertical handy that you could switch to and give a
> > > stronger FS reading with legal power.
> > >
> > > Back in the day of the 2M SCDXC repeater (1976?) - I once heard W6RW
> > > talking to someone who was asking him why his signal was so
> "effective".
> > > His answer was "DXers secret".
> > >
> > > Tree N6TR
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 9:27 AM Michael S. Mitchell W6RW<
> > w6rw at earthlink.net>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> This is a quote from an article written by Harvey Laidman W8DX in 1997
> > >> entitled "Riders of the Purple Ionosphere" which was an article about
> > the
> > >> history of the Southern California DX Club:
> > >>
> > >> Powerful transmitting tubes were readily available surplus and no
> > >> self-respecting California ham shack was without a huge cabinet
> adorned
> > >> with meters, a big Variac, and a pair of welding cables connecting a
> > pole
> > >> pig transformer. "I had a coupl'a those big, beautiful jugs," muses
> Art
> > >> Enockson, W6EA (then W6MUB). During the 1952 World-Wide CW DX Contest,
> > some
> > >> Owlahoot blew the whistle. The Federal Communications Commission
> parked
> > a
> > >> panel truck a short distance from the unsuspecting operator. After
> > taking a
> > >> field strength reading, an agent knocked on the door. If the reading
> in
> > the
> > >> truck changed, they knew the operator had been cheating. "I was ready
> > for
> > >> `em," said the late Roger Mace, W6RW, "it was just that I was so
> rattled
> > >> when they came to the door, I couldn't do anything!" Mace never got
> over
> > >> the intrusion.
> > >>
> > >> DE Mike W6RW
> > >>
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: Dino Darling<dino at kx6d.com>
> > >> Sent: Jul 2, 2024 6:52 PM
> > >> To: Glenn Rattmann<k6na at rattmann.digitalspacemail17.net>, reflector
> > SCCC
> > >> <sccc at contesting.com>
> > >> Subject: [SCCC] Kalifornia Kilowatts...
> > >>
> > >> I'd love to hear the Goo stories from the 60's, 70's and 80's!
> > >>
> > >> I heard rumor there was a prominent radio operator around the corner
> > from
> > >> Knott's Berry Farm that has some suds on reserve. If memory serves, a
> > >> single 4-1000 was mentioned. I would think it would take at least two
> to
> > >> make legend status. It was before my time but my curiosity still
> reigns.
> > >>
> > >> Some people look down on QRO amplifiers. I see it more as another way
> to
> > >> make gain...if you lack the room for a 100'+ boom or a rotating stack.
> > >>
> > >> If anyone has stories they want to share, you have a captive audience.
> > >> Just change the names to protect the innocent. 😁
> > >>
> > >> Dino - KX6D
> > >>
> > >> ________________________________
> > >> From: Glenn Rattmann
> > >>
> > >> ...Phil was known for using some serious Goo in those days; meaning
> > "more"
> > >> than Bud. ;-)
> > >>
> > >> 73,
> > >> Glenn K6NA
> > >>
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