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Anonymous
| | Posted on Saturday, June 02, 2001 - 6:53 pm: | 
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One evening, several years ago, while "monitoring skip :-)" from Australia and the South Pacific, I listened to a series of QSOs from several stations scattered around the west coast, Oklahoma, and Oregon, over a period of about 30 minutes. They were talking to a guy who claimed to be on an Air Force cargo flight from Nevada to Missouri, and using the onboard HF rig to "shoot skip" He claimed he did this "all the time" on these flights to combat boredom. This occurred on 27.575, LSB. I could hear this "Air Force Guy" quite nicely(s30), and heard the other stations also giving him good signal reports, as well as "The Air Force Guy"(used handle "Flying Bus") giving reports to stations I couldn't hear, mentioning Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma. The Local DX Nuts around me were having a heyday, and we even "tracked" the flight with our beam antennas as he flew over N Oklahoma and S Kansas. Subsequently, about two months later, two local DX operators I knew of got pink slipped from the FCC, citing those communications and dtg. They had fallen for the ruse and actually given their mailing addresses to get a card from this guy. One of them, who failed to cease and hide his stuff, had all of his equipment confiscated and fined a month later. |
honky tonk man 593
| | Posted on Monday, June 04, 2001 - 4:37 pm: |
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i was driving down the road rag chewing some dx from europe in february of this year when i past the cop sitting there clocking traffic, well when i say dxing i was using my driver at 1000 watts and if you see my stargunn antenna youd pull me over too, anyway i got pulled over. the state police officer asked me what kind of radio i was using being that i came all over his radio with echo and roger beeps!! i calmly said a 10 meter amatuer radio. i have a tech no code license which i whipped out and he said have a good day. heres a hint guys get the no code license....the police wont bother you as much when you say your a ham operater and can prove it. who wants to get a ticket or worse lose that radio!! cbing is still more fun than ham radio will ever be!! hey good dx and please watch out for the cops when transmiting!! the honky tonk man 593
ps catch me on 26.955 am side durring the day.....later |
vernonott
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 05, 2001 - 8:52 pm: |
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I haven't ever had a problem but my neighbors teenage son has been caught and heavily fined for bleeding over a church intercom on Sunday morning.Same kid was caught and fined and loss his gear for bleeding over on a Hardees drive end intercom.Some people don't learn the first time. |
honkytonkman593
| | Posted on Friday, June 08, 2001 - 4:38 pm: |
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poor guy needs to move out in the country and get away from people!! hell i ordered donuts from a doughnut shop from 1 mile away and picked them up at the drive through when i got there. im lucky so far!! have a good one........THE HONKY TONK MAN 593 OUTTA NY!!! |
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